KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 12 -- Tengku Yasmin Nastasha Tengku Abdul Rahman said that her mother Nik Elin Zurina Nik Abdul Rashid began getting death threats and getting labelled as 'takfir' (blasphemous) after lawyers from a certain political party that she did not name, made the constitutional challenge viral on social media.

Tengku Yasmin divulged that although the Federal Court ruled in their favour by nullifying 16 out of the 18 provisions that she and her mother challenged, she has had trouble sleeping and eating.

"Going back six months ago when the case was first (made known) by lawyers affiliated with a certain political party, Mum and I have been constant recipients of death threats and takfirs from that crowd.

"For the last four days...