"October 2016"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Linda Lakhdhir, a legal advisor in the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch"--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Acknowledgments. Glossary of Terms and Acronyms -- Communications and Multimedia Act: Criminal Investigations and Charges for "Insulting" Speech: Najib -- Criminal Investigations/Charges for "Insulting" Speech: Johor Royal Family -- Criminal Investigations for Calling for Resignation of Najib -- Website Blocking -- Proposed Amendments to the Communications and Multimedia Act -- Sedition Act: Constitutional Challenges -- Sedition Charges -- Prosecutions for Peaceful Protests: Prosecutions for Failure to Give Notice -- Prosecutions for "Unlawful Street Protests" -- Prosecutions for Unlawful Assembly under Penal Code of Malaysia -- Investigations for "TangkapMO1" Rally -- Official Secrets Act -- Recommendations: To the Government of Malaysia -- To The Minister of Home Affairs -- To the Attorney General's Chambers -- To the Inspector General of Police -- To the Malaysian Multimedia and Communications Commission -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
"The report, "Deepening the Culture of Fear: The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Malaysia," documents the government's recent use of overbroad and vaguely worded laws to criminalize peaceful speech and assembly. Since Human Rights Watch's October 2015 report, "Creating a Culture of Fear," the Malaysian government has done little to bring these laws and practices in line with international legal standards. Instead, the government has suggested it will strengthen statutes limiting speech on social media and other rights-offending laws"--Publisher's description.
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