Legislators revised around 93% of the bill, claims Muchyar Yara, deputy secretary-general of the ruling Golkar party, which has a majority in the outgoing parliament.

CNN: Walking on a Tightrope

Still, the deputy secretary-general of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) refuses to be cowed by what his supporters say was yet another case of the government persecuting dissenters.

CNN: Hishammuddin Tun Hussein

"That was just the Pachang incident, " says Chin Chin-sheng, deputy secretary-general of the People First Party (PFP), which was founded by rival presidential candidate James Soong Chu-yu after his election defeat.

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