THERE NEVER WAS ANY REFORMASI

 Amnesty International has come out with their annual report 'The State of the World's Human Rights'.  The full 2023/2024 report can be accessed here.

 

MALAYSIA

A poor report card  by Amnesty International   
govt failed to  reform laws restricting freedom of expression

continued repressive laws to silence critical voices, prevent peaceful protest
Further custodial deaths were recorded

Highlights of the report are as follows:
govt did not reform laws that curtailed freedom of expression 
continued to use repressive laws– including MCMC Act
relating to causing disunity or hatred on grounds of religion and public fear
Sedition Act – to silence critical voices both on and offline.
Printing Presses Publications Act increasingly used to restrict freedom of expression 
Peaceful Assembly Act, Penal Code, Minor Offences Act to restrict peaceful protest.
At least 13 people, including three foreigners, died in police custody.
plantations, logging, construction of dams threaten lands, livelihoods of Indigenous 

 

My Comments :

Is anyone surprised? 
What is there to be surprised about?
May I repeat my mantra one more time? 
"I TOLD YOU SO". 
For almost 30 years.

Here is some trivia. Throughout his 24 years in two tenures as Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamed never sued anyone for libel or slander. Only once when a magazine called the Far Eastern Economic Review wrote a fake story that Dr Mahathir was negotiating to sell Limbang in Sarawak to the government of Brunei did Dr Mahathir sue the magazine. And he won the case. A few years later that magazine went bankrupt. If history has pages, their pages did not make it into history.

There is an unrelated video here. Just for kicks.

 The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.