KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Minister has the discretion to ban words which are “prejudicial or likely to be prejudicial” where national security and public order are concerned, said Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail.
This was the gist of the Court of Appeal’s decision in The Herald case, he said.
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