The Court of Appeal has reinstated Lawyers for Liberty’s (LFL) lawsuit against Singapore Home Minister K Shanmugam over a "correction direction" pursuant to Singapore's Protection From Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 (Pofma), in relation to claims the group had published on prisoners’ treatment.

A three-judge panel today overturned the Kuala Lumpur High Court’s decision in 2020 to strike out the human rights group’s suit against Shanmugam, paving the way for it to be heard in Malaysia...