Reporters Without Borders: Website Accused of Contempt in Another Sign of Decline in Malaysia
July 09, 2020
July 09, 2020
PARIS, France, July 9 -- Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres) issued the following news:
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Malaysian justice system to drop the spurious contempt of court proceedings against the news website Malaysiakini and its editor-in-chief Steven Gan over readers' comments critical of the judiciary, and calls on Malaysia's new government to show that it is determined to defend press freedom.
When a federal court hears the . . .
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Malaysian justice system to drop the spurious contempt of court proceedings against the news website Malaysiakini and its editor-in-chief Steven Gan over readers' comments critical of the judiciary, and calls on Malaysia's new government to show that it is determined to defend press freedom.
When a federal court hears the . . .