Legal action filed over ban of book 'Gay is Okay!'

The home minister and the Malaysian government have been hauled to court over a ban on the bookPublisher Gerakbudaya Enterprise and the book’s author Ngeo Boon Lin filed the judicial review leave application to quash the prohibition order dated Nov 27 last year.reported that the Home Ministry gazetted a prohibition order effective Nov 27 for two publications among them being the bookunder Section 7 of the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984.

“The book has been in publication for over seven years. In fact, part one of the book had been published in the period from 2010 to 2011. The duo further contended that despite their lawyers having issued a legal letter dated Feb 2 this year giving a seven-day ultimatum to revoke the ban, no reply was forthcoming from the minister. They claimed that no reasons were given for the ban.

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