KUALA LUMPUR: Universiti Malaya (UM) cannot revoke the Civil Engineering degree it recently awarded to student activist Wong Yan Ke.

“With utmost respect, the statement by the president of the National Professors Council (MPN), Professor Datuk Dr Raduan Che Rose, that UM has the right to revoke or withhold the degree of its graduate who staged a protest during the university’s convocation ceremony on Monday is misconceived in law” said Hakam President Datuk Dr Gurdial Singh Nijar.