Zunar Sees Publishing Permit Denied

According to a wire story emanating from regional sources earlier today, there's been another setback for the Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, better known as Zunar. A publishing permit for his Gedung Kartun has been rejected by authorities. This rejection brought with it a statement from Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, repeating the government's assertion that Zunar's work could harm public order and national security and declaring that the work violates guidelines from the Printing Presses and Publications Act of 1984.

I'm a tiny bit confused as to where this latest news fits within Zunar's overall story. Gedung Kartun was among three publications denied permission to publish in June of this year. Zunar's most recent travails came in conjunction with a new book, Cartoon-o-phobia, whose imminent publication led to the cartoonist being arrested and hit with sedition charges last month. I believe what may be going on here is that this is either an alternate path for permission that's now been denied, or that this was something of a formal political back and forth, that a representative named N. Gobalakrishnan asked after this specific publication and what we're seeing here is the Home Minister's formal response to that member of parliament.
 
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