Activist Heidy Quah Sues Gov’t Over Section 223 Law That “Restricts Free Speech” & is “Unconstitutional”
The founder of Refuge for the Refugees, Heidy Quah Gaik Li filed a civil lawsuit in the Shah Alam High Court on 30 Aug through law firm Amer Bon. The activist seeks a court order to rule the words “offensive” and “annoy” in Section 233 invalidated for being unconstitutional.
Under Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act, a person who makes, creates or solicits, and initiates the transmission of any online comment which is “obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive” with “intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person” commits an offence.
This is the same law that was used recently to charge Quah over her 2020 Facebook post, where she had highlighted the alleged poor treatment of detainees at immigration detention centres.
According to Malay Mail, Quah is seeking for the words “annoy” and “offensive” to be removed from Section 233, with the other…
