NSTnation “We must never allow Malaysia to return to those dark days when such violations were the norm”
Its director, Melissa Sasidaran, said the investigations are examples of the vague and indiscriminate nature of the Sedition Act and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act, which allow the authorities to arbitrarily interpret anything contentious as criminal, thus allowing them to clamp down on critical or dissenting opinions.
“We’d like to remind the police that the unprecedented abuse of the laws were the worst… during former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s reign. “We must never allow Malaysia to return to those dark days when such violations were the norm,” she said in a statement. According to Melissa, the police must not facilitate the derailing of the progress for reform made by the former Pakatan Harapan government, including the repeal of the Sedition Act and the provisions of the Communications and Multimedia Act.“Such abuse of power is unacceptable, and we therefore call upon the police to cease all investigations which unduly interfere with the right to freedom of expression immediately,” she added.
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