Book ban: Court orders govt to pay over RM51k to Superman Hew

Hew Kuan Yau has obtained a court order for the government to pay him over RM51,000 in damages for a ban against his comic book titled ‘Belt and Road Initiative for Win-Winism’.

The former DAP member’s lawyer Vince Tan confirmed that the Kuala Lumpur High Court today made the order as part of damage assessment in a legal challenge against the 2019 book ban...