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The head staff at two independent news websites in Malaysia are facing cybercrime charges for posting a video of a politician criticising the country’s attorney general.
The government accused KiniTV and Malaysiakini editor-in-chief Steven Gan and CEO Premesh Chandran of violating the Communications and Multimedia Act of 1998 (CMA), which criminalises “the improper use of network facilities by knowingly transmitting contents which are offensive, menacing, obscene, false and indecent with the intent to annoy, abuse or threaten another person”.
The charge is related to a KiniTV video posted on July 27, 2016 of a politician criticising the office of the
