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Malaysia’s media crackdowns are being driven by an insecure government highly sensitive to criticism

  • Written by Ross Tapsell, Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific., Australian National University
Malaysia’s media crackdowns are being driven by an insecure government highly sensitive to criticismAHMAD YUSNI/EPA

The recent police interrogations of six Al Jazeera journalists in Malaysia – five of whom are Australian – was not about shaping international reportage or a diplomatic rift.

Rather, it was part of a troubling pattern of crackdowns on the media and freedom of speech in the country, driven by the domestic concerns of an...

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