KUALA LUMPUR: The Pakatan government will push for a change in the law to prevent any government, whether federal or state, from suing individuals for defamation.
The move came following the Federal Court’s landmark judgment on Wednesday allowing the government to sue individuals for defamation. The judgment has since been criticised as curbing freedom of speech and expression.
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