'Superman Hew' wins appeal, gets order to quash book ban

The Court of Appeal today allowed a judicial review brought by former DAP member Hew Kuan Yau to quash the home minister’s decision to ban the comic book ‘Belt and Road Initiative for Win-Winism’.

A three-member panel comprising judges Hanipah Farikullah, P Ravinthran and Ahmad Nasfy Yasin allowed Hew’s appeal and overturned the High Court’s decision to dismiss his judicial review application.

Ravinthran, who delivered the court’s decision, granted...