An independent newspaper editor, Ahmad Lutfi Othman, today expressed disappointment with Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) for failing to work towards repealing restrictive press laws.

Lutfi was at a meeting with Suhakam commissioner Prof Mohd Hamdan Adnan at the commissions office in Kuala Lumpur this morning to jointly hand over a memorandum with a group of journalists calling for the repeal of the Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA).