KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 — A deputy minister said he personally saw no issue with the Official Secrets Act 1972 (OSA) in principle, and the only problem with it was the previous government’s alleged abuse of the law. Mohamed Hanipa Maidin, the deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in...
BY EMMANUEL SANTA MARIA CHIN
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 — A deputy minister said he personally saw no issue with the Official Secrets Act 1972 in principle, and the only problem with it was the previous government’s alleged abuse of the law. “The last time was not an issue of the Act, but it was a problem of the Act being abused, it was not a problem with the law.
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