Home Ministry suspends PKR's and PAS’s newsletters

KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Ministry has suspended PKR’s newsletter Suara Keadilan and PAS’s newsletter Harakah for three months, effective immediately, its minister Datuk Sri Syed Hamid Albar confirmed Monday.
"Its true we suspended the two newsletters from today. We do not wish to restrict press freedom in this country but they were still publishing untrue stories after they were given warnings," he said.
He said the two newsletters had run stories that questioned the position of the Rulers and a number of other stories that were sensational and likely to confuse people in a multi-racial country.
With the suspension, both newspapers can only again at the end of June, missing a number of key political events and developments including the three by-elections on April 7.
Suara Keadilan is a weekly and Harakah is published twice a month.
Meanwhile, Tian Chua, PKR's information chief, said that Suara Keadilan received notice of the suspension Monday noon.
"However, no reason was stated," he said, adding that the weekly planned to appeal the suspension.

tunku : this two newsletters should had been ban long time ago. i think home ministry is so lenient in taking action against them.what is a 3 months suspension? they should ban it untill the two behave and carry out news with responsibility.most of their news are fairy tales and merely allegations against the government without any truth in it.if the news were true, i think they have put many government leaders behind the bar already.till today nothing but lies.