KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday bolstered a law protecting the sanctity of Islam and the country's traditional rulers, the sultans, in an about-turn to scrap ...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's cabinet has ordered the suspension of the colonial-era Sedition Act, widely used to rein in dissent, and is working on doing the same for the death penalty as it ...
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s record on legal reforms has come under scrutiny after a journalist was detained under a colonial-era Sedition Act for asking a “sensitive question” linking the ...
PETALING JAYA: The arrest of former Free Malaysia Today (FMT) journalist Rex Tan under the Sedition Act 1948 was unnecessary and disproportionate to the wrong he had allegedly committed, says DAP ...
Rex Tan's arrest for asking a 'sensitive question' shows how a colonial-era act continues to hold back Malaysian reforms, critics say Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's record on legal reforms ...