Activist Heidy Quah gets DNAA after judge rules charge defective

The Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur has ordered a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) for activist Heidy Quah on the basis that the charge against her was defective.

Her lawyer New Sin Yew told Malaysiakini that judge Edwin Paramjothy found that the charge was not in compliance with Sections 152 to 154 of the Criminal Procedure Code which stipulates that the form of charge, particulars as to time, place and person and manner of committing offence must be stated...