Posted 1:58 p.m.Oct 11, 2018— Updated 1:58 p.m.Oct 11, 2018 By Richard C. Paddock , New York Times ...

Human Rights Watch said that the National Front, which has governed Malaysia since independence, relies on the Sedition Act as well as the Internal Security Act, which allows indefinite detention ...

GUA MUSANG, Malaysia (Reuters) -Malaysia has charged opposition leader and former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin with sedition for allegedly insulting the country's former king, his lawyer said ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was charged Tuesday with sedition over a speech he made that allegedly questioned the integrity of the country’s ...

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 ...

— Gayathry V (@gayathry) September 13, 2014 Ramon Navaratnam, chairperson of the Asli Centre of Public Policy Studies, reminded the government that the Sedition Act is not helping Malaysia: We have ...

FILE - Malaysia's former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin poses for media outside courthouse, after charged with corruption and money laundering, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 10, 2023.

Abolishing capital punishment and repealing the Sedition Act were in the campaign platform of Mahathir’s coalition, Pakatan Harapan, but the measures received little attention during the recent ...