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Media freedom in Malaysia is far from assured, open letter tells prime minister

Published on 15 May 2012Read

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Bersih 3.0

Major protest prompts attacks on journalists, censorship and missing media replaced by civil society

Published on 5 May 2012Read

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Two journalists set upon during environmental demonstration

Reporters Without Borders deplores the assaults on Adam Chew and Lee Hong Chun, journalists with the Chinese-language newspaper Kwong Wah Jit (...)

Published on 2 March 2012 Read

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Blogger ordered to pay huge damages to minister in defamation case

A Malaysian court has rejected an appeal by the blogger Amizudin Ahmat and ordered him to pay 300,000 ringgit (100,000 US dollars) in damages to (...)

Published on 23 January 2012 Read

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Fired reporter says his newspaper was used for propaganda purposes

Reporters Without Borders condemns the daily Utusan Malaysia’s decision on 21 April to fire one of its journalists, Hata Wahari, because he (...)

Published on 10 May 2011 Read

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Head of journalists’ union facing dismissal for criticising his newspaper

Reporters Without Borders condemns the way that Hata Wahari, the president of the National Union Of Journalists Malaysia (NUJ), is being treated (...)

Published on 19 April 2011 Read

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Many opposition and news sites brought down by cyber-attacks in election run-up

Many opposition and news websites have fallen victim to distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) in the run-up to tomorrow’s election in (...)

Published on 15 April 2011 Read

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Prosecutors withdraw charges against satirical blogger

Charges against satirical blogger Irwan Abdul Raman, who blogs under the name of Hassan Skodeng, were dropped at a hearing today in Petaling Jaya (...)

Published on 16 March 2011 Read

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Helping cartoonist Zunar overcome censorship

In a show of support for Malaysia’s banned political cartoonist Zunar and to help him circumvent his country’s censorship, Reporters Without (...)

Published on 21 February 2011 Read

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Cartoonist Zunar goes to court to challenge ban on his books

Political cartoonist Zulkiflee Anawar Ulhaque, better known by the pen-name of Zunar, has brought a legal action challenging a government ban on (...)

Published on 2 November 2010 Read