Heidy Quah Gaik Li is given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal by the Kuala Lumpur sessions Court on improper use of network facilities. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 25, 2022.
THE Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today gave a discharge not amounting to an acquittal to the founder of a civil society group, Refuge for the Refugees, on improper use of network facilities by initiating the transmission of offensive communications on refugees in the country through Facebook. The decision was made by judge M.M. Edwin Paramjothy after allowing a preliminary objection filed by Heidy Quah Gaik Li, 28, that the charges against her were defective and did not comply with the requirements of section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 and sections 152 to 154 of the criminal procedure code .
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