Govt unable to prove Malaysiakini’s intent to publish comments, says lawyer


Bede Hong

The legal team representing Malaysiakini and its editor-in-chief Steven Gan argues that the news portal had no realistic means to vet the more than 2,000 comments made by its readers daily. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, July 13, 2020.

GOVERNMENT lawyers could not prove that Malaysiakini and its editor-in-chief Steven Gan had knowledge or intent to publish five readers’ comments, which were later deemed to be contemptuous, the news portal’s legal team argued at the Federal Court today.

At a contempt hearing presided by a seven-member panel led by Court of Appeal president Rohana Yusuf today, lead counsel Malik Imtiaz Sawar said neither the news portal nor Gan intended to publish the comments made by third parties.


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