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Monday, 26 Jul 2021 10:03 AM MYT Follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates. JULY 26 — For almost 20 years, members of the Freedom Film Network (FFN) have shared stories on poverty, inequality and injustice in Malaysia.  These social justice stories of ordinary people are important, as we live in a backdrop of fear: fear of intimidation and harassment from those who want to silence these stories.  The politics of fear has made us afraid to broach the subjects of race, poverty and inequality and to view them as not our problems, not our issues, not ...

LETTER | Dear Mr PM, Malaysia is traumatised Modified1:11 am - LETTER | I am an international psychology trauma specialist. Ironically, the reason I can sit alone in silence and pen these thoughts is trauma. I have a family member in the isolation ward of a Kuala Lumpur hospital, under observation, having developed pneumonia as a result of the complete failure of the government-mandated Covid-19 quarantine. As my loved one lies in the hospital bed with dignity, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin lies in a hospital bed, desperate and having video conferences trying to hold on to power. I have wor...

COMMENT | Holding power to account on custodial deaths Modified12:36 am - COMMENT | Last week, the police started investigating the Freedom Film Network (FFN), its co-founder Anna Har, and cartoonist Amin Landak over the premiere of a short film in mid-June as part of the Freedom Film Festival. The film, titled Chilli powder and Thinner, portrays an animated recollection of a person’s dark experience while being held under police custody. Just this week, police have also started investigating activists from Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) and Misi Solidariti, two non-governmental organisat...

Cops probe two over animation on teen detainee's brush with police brutality Published Modified2:21 am - The police are investigating two individuals in connection with the release of a four-minute animation based on the true story of a boy who testified to being tortured while under police custody with two of his friends. Freedom Film Network (FFN) - organiser of the annual human rights documentary film festival FreedomFilmFest that premiered "Chilli Powder & Thinner" on June 12 - said its co-founder Anna Har and cartoonist Amin Landak have been summoned to Bukit Aman for questioning at 2.30...