Activist Heidy Quah granted DNAA, judge rules charge 'defective'

KUALA LUMPUR: Activist Heidy Quah Gaik Li has been granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) by the Sessions Court here over a charge of sharing offensive content in a Facebook post alleging mistreatment of refugees at an Immigration detention centre.

According to Quah’s lawyer New Sin Yew, the DNAA was granted by judge MM Edwin Paramjothy on Monday (April 25) on the basis that the charge against her was “defective”.