‘Gov must do more for freedom of speech’

Bar Council protesting against the Sedition Act in 2014. It is also still calling for the Act to be repealed. — The Star

AS the unity government celebrates its first year in power, the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s government needs to do more to achieve promised goals of reform and freedom of expression.

The CIJ notes in its one-year review that the government appears to have made no progress or even backtracked on a number of important issues since coming into power last November. The most significant setback centres on the Sedition Act 1948, says CIJ executive director Wathshlah G. Naidu.