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Old 04-30-2018, 04:32 AM  
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Danish citizen is first person convicted under new anti-fake news law

Figures...

He'll be spending a month in jail because he doesn't have the money to pay the fine.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se...-fake-news-law

A Danish national has become the first person to be convicted under Malaysia’s new anti-fake news law.

Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman, 46, on Monday (April 30) pleaded guilty to maliciously publishing fake news in the form of a YouTube video on the recent shooting of Fadi al-Batsh, an alleged member of militant Palestine group Hamas in Kuala Lumpur, reported The Star.

He was sentenced to a week’s jail and fined RM10,000 (S$3,378) under the Anti-Fake News Act which came into force on April 11 and provides for stiff punishments of up to six years in prison and a maximum fine of RM500,000.

Salah will spend a month in jail because he could not pay the RM10,000 fine.
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