Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) urged the police to stop their investigation against PSM Youth over its LGBTQ+ health awareness workshop.

In a statement today, LFL director Zaid Malek claimed police had no legal basis to probe the event and regarded the investigation as amounting to a serious abuse of power by the authority.

This followed Selangor police chief Hussein Omar Khan's statement yesterday, who said they have launched an investigation under Section 298A of the Penal Code, which criminalises...