Malaysia Sedition Law Snares Opposition
In 2012, with Malaysia’s national ruling coalition facing a tough reelection campaign, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak promised a raft of human rights reforms including cutting the country’s infamous colonial-era Internal Security Act, which allows for indefinite detention without trial.
None of those reforms happened. Instead, in the past several months,…
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