KUALA LUMPUR: Former Tronoh DAP assemblyman Paul Yong Choo Kiong filed an appeal at the Federal Court after the Court of Appeal upheld his 2019 rape conviction of his Indonesian maid.
Yong's counsel, Datuk Rajpal Singh, said a notice of appeal was filed on March 5.
"But no date has been given yet for case management," he told the 'New Straits Times'.
The notice was filed after the appeals court, in a majority decision on March 1, upheld the conviction but reduced Yong's jail sentence to eight years and maintained the two strokes of the rotan.
Yong's appeal against a High Court sentence for raping his maid was denied in a 2-1 decision by a three-member panel led by judge Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail.
The panel, however, allowed a stay of execution, pending an appeal to the Federal Court.
The court allowed Yong to be released on RM30,000 bail with one surety and ordered him to surrender his passport to the court.
Rajpal had said they would argue on the point of law in the last appeal.
"This will be one of the rarest cases of rape charges to be taken to the Federal Court."