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18 organisations and 44 journalists signed a statement condemning the "egregious act of judicial overreach" by authorities.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of journalists and NGOs have called on the Malaysian authorities to overturn the conviction in absentia of British investigative journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown, who was sentenced by a Malaysian court to two years in prison on a trumped-up charge of criminal defamation.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 — The media card issued to journalists is not a form of accreditation, Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said today. He added, however, that the media...

The journalist called the conviction an act of "political revenge" for her investigative work, which uncovered a major corruption scandal in Malaysia.

The journalist has alleged that she is being targeted because of her reports that exposed the 1MDB scandal.

Clare Rewcastle Brown claims her defamation conviction is linked to her work on the 1MDB corruption scandal.

International press freedom groups have rallied to support the Editor of Sarawak Report in the face of a bizarre two year jail sentence issued in absentia by a magistrates court in Terengganu for referring to the local Sultanah in a book about 1MDB....

'There are many others more deserving than Najib.'

Defence counsel for Najib Razak, jailed over fraud scandal, says Man on the Run is ‘sub judice and contemptuous’

In 2015, independent journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown revealed that $700 million had appeared in the personal bank account of Malaysia’s then-prime minster, Najib Razak. The money had come from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad fund (1MDB), which was intended for public development and infrastructure. This was — and still is — the world’s biggest money-laundering scandal, […]