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Malaysia s new administration is increasingly using abusive laws to investigate and prosecute speech critical of the government said human rights watch on wednesday 10 june.

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The human rights commission of malaysia expressed its disappointment that the declaration permits restrictions to be made on grounds wider than what are accepted internationally and pointed especially to general principle 7 which declares on the one hand that all human rights are universal indivisible interdependent and interrelated recognises on the other that member states. On april 16 the malaysian navy intercepted a boat with about 200 rohingya refugees off the coast of malaysia and prevented it from entering malaysian waters. Bloggers were arrested under the sedition act and the printing press and publications act pppa was used to control newspaper content.

Hrw also highlighted the restrictions on the rights of malaysian muslims to follow other islamic schools of jurisprudence other than the officially sanctioned sunni denomination. 3 456 likes 5 talking about this 1 was here. Malaysia human rights human rights concerns.

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