Activist Heidy Quah has turned to the Court of Appeal to nullify part of a law criminalising offensive online comments.

The Refuge for Refugees founder is appealing against a Shah Alam High Court verdict in September last year that dismissed her challenge against the validity of parts of Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.

Section 233(1)(a) states that it is an offence for a person to make, create or solicit, and initiate the transmission of any online comment which is “obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive” with “intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person”.