Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Malaysia: Court Punishes News Site for Reader Comments

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Malaysiakini's editor-in-chief Steven Gan speaks to the media at the Federal Court in in Putrajaya, Malaysia on February 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Vincent Thian (Bangkok) – The Malaysian Federal Court decision holding an online news site responsible for reader comments contravenes international human rights standards and will chill free speech in Malaysia, Human Rights Watch said today. The court on February 18, 2021, held Malaysiakini in contempt for five comments posted by readers even though the online portal removed the comments within 12 minutes of being notified…

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