{"id":777015718,"date":"2024-05-22T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777015718"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:01:27","slug":"malaysia-court-issues-gag-order-to-prevent-activists-forest-city-casino-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysia-court-issues-gag-order-to-prevent-activists-forest-city-casino-comments","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: court issues gag order to prevent activist&#8217;s Forest City casino comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Activist Badrul Hisham Shaharin must not comment on purported plans for a casino in Forest City, Johor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia.- The High Court has issued a gag order against Badrul Hisham Shaharin to prevent him from making statements about a purported casino project in Forest City,\u00a0Johor. The order will last while he remains on charge for allegedly making seditious remarks on his Facebook account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The political activist<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>was arrested in April after speculating about the supposed casino development. Judge\u00a0Datuk Abu Bakar Katar said that while freedom of speech is protected under Article 10 of the Federal Constitution, it is not an absolute right.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The casino speculation was <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysian-pm-denies-talks-on-forest-city-casino-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denied by prime minister\u00a0Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim<\/a>\u00a0and the companies allegedly involved, Genting and Berjaya. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist Badrul Hisham Shaharin must not comment on purported plans for a casino in Forest City, Johor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A Malaysian High Court has issued a gag order against activist Badrul Hisham Shaharin, prohibiting him from commenting on a purported casino project in Forest City, Johor. This follows his arrest for seditious remarks speculating on the development, which was subsequently denied by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and implicated entities Genting and Berjaya. The ruling underscores the delicate balance between freedom of speech and regulatory stability within emerging iGaming jurisdictions.","focusai_entities":"Badrul Hisham Shaharin, Datuk Abu Bakar Katar, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Genting, Berjaya","focusai_location":"Malaysia, Johor, Forest City","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Investment Climate","query":"How might this gag order and the associated political intervention influence foreign direct investment sentiment and the perceived regulatory stability for large-scale integrated resort developments in Malaysia?"},{"label":"Corporate Reputation Management","query":"What are the long-term implications for corporate reputation and stakeholder trust for entities like Genting and Berjaya, given their public denial amidst persistent speculation and subsequent legal action?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23907],"class_list":["post-777015718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777015718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777015730,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015718\/revisions\/777015730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777015718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777015718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777015718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}