In a bombshell video leaked yesterday to the Malaysian press, a former Malaysian deputy prime minister appeared to suggest that Prime Minister Najib Razak had admitted to embezzling over 600 million euros in national development funds, an allegation first published last week by the whistleblowing website Sarawak Report. Malaysia’s government blocked the Sarawak Report on […]

Malaysia should repeal its colonial-era Sedition Act, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today amid a wave of criminal sedition cases against journalists and commentators that observers say are intended to intimidate critical voices into silence. Most recently, a Kuala Lumpur court on Friday charged a well-known political cartoonist with nine separate counts of sedition, defined […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the Malaysian government’s recent refusal to admit IPI’s 2013 Free Media Pioneer award winner, Clare Rewcastle Brown, into the country, and calls on authorities there to reverse this decision immediately. On July 3, Rewcastle Brown was travelling to the Sarawak state’s administrative capital of Kuching on the island of […]

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, celebrated every year on May 3, the International Press Institute (IPI) announced the winners of its 2013 World Press Freedom Hero and Free Media Pioneer Awards. Two journalists – American reporter Marie Colvin and Japanese photojournalist Mika Yamamoto – are the posthumous recipients of IPI’s 2013 World Press Freedom […]