Group says no legal basis to ban public recording of police raids, arrests

Rights group Lawyers for Liberty has shot down Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin's statement that the act of recording videos or live broadcasts of police officers during raids or arrests in public places is an offence.

LFL director Zaid Malek said Hamzah's response, in a written parliamentary reply to Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng, has no legal basis as there is no legal provision in Malaysia or abroad that criminalises recording police officers, whether by camera or video or livestream, in the course of their duty...