{"id":66460,"date":"2021-01-04T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=211098"},"modified":"2021-01-04T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:58:00","slug":"restaurant-removes-communist-themed-images-that-went-viral-says-johor-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2021\/01\/04\/restaurant-removes-communist-themed-images-that-went-viral-says-johor-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant removes communist-themed images that went viral, says Johor police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Restaurant removes communist-themed images that went viral, says Johor police chief Monday, 04 Jan 2021 09:58 PM MYT Johor police chief Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said a police team from the Johor Baru Selatan District Police Headquarters had inspected the premises yesterday at about 3.40pm as a result of the images that went viral on social media. \u2014 Bernama pic<br \/>\nJOHOR BARU, Jan 4 \u2014 A restaurant in the Johor that allegedly used communist-themed pictures and caricatures was found to have removed those images.<br \/>\nJohor police chief Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said a police team from the Johor Baru Selatan District Police Headquarters had inspected the premises yesterday at about 3.40pm as a result of the images that went viral on social media.<br \/>\nHe, however, said the local authority had previously taken action against the restaurant for displaying business billboards that did not comply with the regulations.<br \/>\n\u201cThe investigation found that the owner of the restaurant was a 41-year-old local man while his wife was a Chinese national. The man explained that the images that went viral were taken in 2019,\u201d he said in a statement today.<br \/>\nAyob said his team is conducting an investigation under Section 505 (B) of the Penal Code which provides for two years imprisonment and a fine.<br \/>\nApart from that, investigations are being conducted under Section 47 of the Societies Act 1966 and Section 233 of the Multimedia Communications Act (AKMM) 1998 each providing for two years imprisonment or a maximum fine of RM5,000 as well as one-year imprisonment or a fine of RM50,000.<br \/>\nHe also said that an investigation was also underway to find out if the restaurant in the state had anything to do with the restaurant in Penang which recently was also found to be using communist pictures and caricatures.<br \/>\n\u201cThe public is advised not to engage in any act of promoting the ideology of communism and socialism that could arouse support for the struggle of the communist party as stern action will be taken,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Johor Baru City Council (MBJB) in a separate statement said the viral images on social media were old pictures of the premises before the renovations were carried out by the owners of the premises. \u2014 Bernama Related Articles<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurant removes communist-themed images that went viral, says Johor police chief Monday, 04 Jan 2021 09:58 PM MYT Johor police chief Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said a police team from the Johor Baru Selatan District Police Headquarters had inspe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012,194,1108,465],"tags":[10484,3472,10321,6555],"class_list":["post-66460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-news-chinese-law","category-police","category-social-media","tag-china-travel-hospitality","tag-chinese","tag-communist","tag-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66461,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66460\/revisions\/66461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}