Criminalise stalking now, urges WAO


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KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The Women's Aid Oganisation (WAO) calls on lawmakers to urgently pass the law to make stalking an offence in the Penal Code and to introduce a restraining order against stalkers in the Criminal Procedure Code.

WAO in a statement said stalking is currently not a crime in Malaysia and that if someone were to repeatedly contact, follow, or show up at the victim's frequent places, there is little that authorities could do.

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