Malaysia has issued written guidelines that restrict domestically produced content from showing anything that mocks, is critical of, or portrays the government and officials in a negative light.

This latest round of censorship becomes effective June 15th and means that television stations and broadcasters will be barred from airing anything that would “mock, belittle, criticise the government and the country’s national sensitivities” and “tarnish the government’s image”, The Malaysian Insider reported.

Malaysia’s film censorship board chairman Datuk Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid defended the new regulations saying that such scenes could tarnish Malaysia’s image.

Scenes of characters breaking the country’s laws will also be cut out “unless it is an evil character and he gets his comeuppance”

In a statement to The Malaysian Insider, Halim said, “We really can’t allow that, because it involves our image. It can bring a bad image for the government, so we avoid this.”

“Such scenes will definitely be censored, there is no avoiding it, because we have our people in the television stations doing the censorship.”

Halim added that any stations thinking of ignoring the ban should think again.

“Such scenes will definitely be censored, there is no avoiding it. Because we have our people in the television stations doing the censorship.”

The law already band scenes of “women wearing form-fitting clothes, clothes that reveal the shape of the breasts, privates, thighs, buttocks, and underwear (except for Indian women in saris)” from locally made films on television.

Scenes of characters breaking the country’s laws will also be cut out “unless it is an evil character and he gets his comeuppance”, according to The Malaysian Insider.

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