KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 23 -- Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil has denied ordering restrictions against social media content about the Zara Qairina incident, after he was accused of doing so by a Facebook user.

Zara Qairina, 13, was found unconscious near her school dormitory in Sabah on July 16 and pronounced dead at Queen Elizabeth Hospital the next day. She is believed to have suffered bullying, neglect, and sexual harassment.

The case led to a police investigation, including analysis of her diary, exhumation of her body for a second post-mortem, and charges against five teenagers accused of bullying her, marking the first case under a new section of the Penal Code in Malaysia.

Today, Fahmi said the allegations against him made...