Malaysia - Five journalists arrested in crackdown on independent media

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of a total of five journalists in the past 48 hours with the aim of pressuring independent media to censor themselves and prevent them working freely. Yesterday, the police raided the Kuala Lumpur offices of The Malaysian Insider, a news website also known as TMI, arresting managing editor Lionel Morais, Bahasa news editor Amin Shah Iskandar and features and analysis editor Zulkifli Sulong under the 1948 Sedition Act and the 1998 (...)

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