Activist claims trial over alleged offensive posting on mistreatment of refugees

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KUALA LUMPUR: Activist Heidy Quah Gaik Li has pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here to a charge of sharing offensive content over a Facebook posting that alleges mistreatment of refugees at the Immigration detention centre.

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Quah, who is the founder of NGO Refuge for the Refugees, was charged before Sessions Court judge M. M. Edwin Paramjothy here on Tuesday.

The posting was later read at the Immigration detention depot's management division office at the Immigration headquarters in Putrajaya at about 3.30pm on June 10, 2020. She faces a maximum fine of RM50,000 or imprisonment for up to one year, or both, upon conviction and shall also be liable to a further fine of RM1,000 for each day the offence continued after the conviction.Lawyer New Sin Yew, who represented Quah, asked for a lower bail.

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