THE new government headed by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin should pick up the unfinished business left by the previous Pakatan Harapan government and continue the work of further promoting human rights in Malaysia.
As Muhyiddin has said that he will be a PM for all, one of the things he could do is to amend or revoke obsolete draconian laws that inhibit or curtail our freedom of speech, particularly relating to the freedom of the press. Freedom of speech and of the press are fundamental expressions of human rights. Thus, the Sedition Act (1948), the Communications and Multimedia Act (1998) and the Printing Presses And Publications Act (1984) should be, at the very least, amended if immediate revocation is not possible.
