The world's first "fake news punishment law" enforcement, the first conviction judgment is a foreign traveler to Malaysia

Initially the first conviction in Malaysia was underway in the world that was conducting the criminal law reform that "Penalty is imposed on those who created fake news". It was not a Malaysian but a Danish who was convicted.

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The world's first "fake news punishment law" introduced in Malaysia can be confirmed in the following article.

A new law which imposes fines of up to 6 years and a fine of 13 million yen to fake news was established in Malaysia, it also applies to foreign criminals - GIGAZINE


Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman sentenced to 46 years old Danish people for the first conviction on charges of breach of Malaysia's fake news punishment law. It was maliciously spreading fake news that malicious dissemination of fake news was made on the YouTube movie about the case that Palestinian man was shot dead in April 21, 2018, "The police officer arrived late" in content. It was arrested and detained as it was supposed to be. The Malaysian police against the Sulaiman inmate saying "It took nearly 50 minutes to arrive at the police," he said that the Malaysian police had counter-argued that it took only 8 minutes to arrive.

Danish national first to be sentenced under Anti-Fake News Act - YouTube


On April 30, 2018, the court in Kuala Lumpur convicted a fine of 10 thousand ringgit (about 280,000 yen), assuming that the act of Sulaiman sentenced person violated the law of fake news penalty. Although the Fake News Punishment Act was just enforced on April 11, 2018, inmates sentenced to conviction as soon as three weeks have appeared. In addition, Sulaiman sentenced him to choose to spend a month in prison because he could not pay a fine.

The Fake News Punishment Act also applies to Malaysian foreign criminals, but obviously foreigners in Malaysia are also subject to punishment. Sulaiman sentenced himself as a Danish citizen and said he was staying on a trip to Malaysia. By publishing on the YouTube movie about the shooting death that came across during my stay, I was convicted for the first time in the world due to the spreading act of fake news.

Malaysia's fake news punishment sentence at the time of article creation is the highest sentence of six years imprisonment, 500 thousand ringgit (about 14 million yen), so people planning to stay in Malaysia strongly aware of the existence of the fake news punishment law It looks better.