PETALING JAYA: National Human Rights Society (Hakam) has welcomed the government's proposal to allow street protest to be removed as a criminal offence under the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 (PAA) but has called for several other provisions within the Act to also be repealed or amended.
Hakam secretary-general Lim Wei Jiet (pic) said the government's efforts to remove street protest as a criminal offence in the PAA was welcomed as street protests is an "inherent and inalienable part of the freedom to assembly under Article 10 of the Federal Constitution".