Home Ministry returns Benz Ali's book after four months
Books should be discussed not confiscated, says bookstore owner.
Source: malaysiakini.com
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Books should be discussed not confiscated, says bookstore owner.
Author says PPPA is a concerning factor in a country of reforms.
His government is instead using those laws to restrict free speech and silence the administration’s critics, they say.
Critics say recent seizures made under the Printing Presses Publication Act (PPPA) are government responses to a more conservative wave sweeping over Malaysia.
The International Union of Left Publishers condemned the raid on a left book store in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur by the Ministry of Home Affairs, reports Peoples Dispatch.