The Edge media group is taking the appropriate legal recourse to reverse the suspension of its two publications The Edge Weekly and The Edge Financial Daily, with the filing of a judicial review today. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, July 27, 2015.
A media release by The Edge Media Group Corporate Communications said the application was filed through the legal firm Raja, Darryl & Loh.
The statement said the publisher had requested that the application be heard on an urgent basis.
"Given the urgency and public interest, we hope the court will grant us a date very soon," it added.
This is the first time a publisher is seeking legal recourse following the suspension for their reportage on debt-ridden state investment firm 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).
On Friday, the media group's publisher and CEO Ho Kay Tat said the suspension took effect from today.
Home Ministry secretary-general Datuk Alwi Ibrahim in a statement on Saturday said the suspension of the publications was made after the ministry had scrutinised their reports on 1MDB and the reply to the show-cause letters issued.
The ministry has given three reasons for the suspensions which it said violated Section 7(1) of the Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA) 1984.
It said the headings and reporting by the two publications had raised questions and created negative public perceptions towards 1MDB, a Finance Ministry-owned state investment firm.
The reports also implicated the government and national leaders, the ministry said.
Secondly, it also found the reports to be based on doubtful and unverified information, which it said might alarm public opinion and might be prejudicial to public order and national interest.
Thirdly, the 1MDB issue is being investigated by a special task force and it was therefore inappropriate for reportage on the issue to create negative perceptions, the ministry had said.
- TMI
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