Pppa Cases In Malaysia
Zaid said the minister who is named respondent did not give him the right to be heard before the order was made.
Pppa cases in malaysia. With all these books that are deemed dirty being banned we still have cases of fathers raping their daughters 365 times. It was a record number for a single court appearance in malaysia according to his lawyers. Lawyer azhar harun has slammed the government over its use of the printing presses and publications act 1984 pppa to ban books saying it will not be effective in maintaining social order and morality. Article 19 reiterated that pppa is incompatible with international human rights law and standards relating to freedom of expression.
We strongly protest any attempt to enlarge the scope of the pppa and reiterate our calls for the abolition of this law and the sedition act as well as other overly restrictive laws that have no place in the modern democratic society that malaysia aspires to be. Of the pppa has even been used to ban t shirts. Facebook and twitter related lawsuits have flooded the malaysian courts. In the cases of defamation which suit to test the limits of freedom of speech in cyberspace would be the case of the new straits times press m bhd ors v ahirudin bin attan 2 mlj 814.
This book consists of 70 reported and unreported malaysian trademark cases. A case management has been fixed for feb 14 before a court deputy registrar to fix a hearing date to hear zaid s leave application for judicial review. The weapon most frequently used in this crackdown as the adli and chua cases illustrate has been malaysia s notorious sedition act. Zulkifli anwar ulhaque.
The year 2013 was one packed with an unprecedented number of legal cases concerning the malaysian internet sphere so much so that i have enough cases for one full article. The malaysia government should follow suit by repealing or reforming the printing presses and publications act 1984 pppa the repressive law that was used to impose the ban. Malaysia drops sedition case against political cartoonist zunar. The contents in this website were prepared in good faith and the private pension administrator malaysia ppa expressly disclaims and accepts no liability whatsoever as to the accuracy relevance completeness or correctness of the information and opinion.
The pppa has been so effective in shackling the press over the past decades it. The case was later brought to the court of appeal.