PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Harapan's reforms on the human rights front a year after coming into power have been a “profound disappointment”, says the Human Rights Watch. Among the laws that were to be repealed were the Sedition Act, the Prevention of Crime Act (Poca), the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma), and the National Security Council Act. Amnesty International Malaysia executive director Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu said that while there were hits, there seemed to be more misses when it came to implementing human rights reforms in the country. She said that some of the bold statements of rights reforms were swiftly followed by disappointing U-turns, indicating a lack of political will. And that is something the government needs to remember, and remember that it won the last election based on the promises it made,” she said.

Source: The Star May 08, 2019 07:18 UTC