The NGO Engage joined forces with press and freedom groups on Thursday to re-launch a fund to protect journalists and civil society campaigners from abusive and oppressive law suits designed to stifle public debate in Malaysia. Thomas Fann, the chairperson of Engage, reminded that the fund was originally launched in 2015 to support those who […]
The Terengganu Court has demanded Clare Rewcastle Brown should appear in person to make her appeal against a jail sentence that was passed against her in absentia after a trial she was never notified would take place for an alleged crime of defamation for which she is yet to be charged. Can Malaysia sentence you in your absence then challenge you to appear to appeal the sentence?……
This egregious act of judicial overreach poses a grave threat to investigative journalism and media freedom in Malaysia by preserving the culture of fear for journalists and preventing these agents of democracy who serve to inform the public from carrying out their duties. ….
Is this a desperate measure to keep the Sarawak Report author out of Malaysia or the start of a new attempt to persuade INTERPOL to help incarcerate her in Malaysia for a ‘defamation’ that never was?…..
The Appeal Court has issued an award for costs of RM120,000 and damages of RM300,000 against the author of The Sarawak Report and two fellow defendants.
This amounts to a thousand times less than the astonishing RM300 million that the wealthy royal was demanding for a case of harmless mistaken identity, yet it is a ruinous sum for the three defendants targeted in this case.
The perils of Taib family exposure are mounting now that the Governor’s two sons have named Taib himself as a defendant in their lawsuit over millions of CMSB shares, signed over to his second wife from his first wife’s estate. But it is not the only family lawsuit that threatens to spill a heaving can of worms….
Samling’s egregious greenwash campaign just plumbed new depths as the company claims validation from Save Rivers, the NGO it has simultaneously sued for criticising its operations. Branding entities must not be taken in ……
Sarawak Report has been harassed and faced aggressive litigation from numerous London law firms and KL copy cats over the past decade, generally acting for crooks and kleptocrats. This week the UK government and the UK Solicitors’ Regulatory Authority issued stern warnings to law firms and promised to tighten the law against such actions…..
A wealthy litigant has been left with egg on their face after a High Court tossed out their libel case today which had been brought against a respected media organisation…..
The Taib family’s long-running and vindictive legal attack on the Swiss NGO, the Bruno Manser Fund, has met with a stunning reversal as the international body OECD has finally come out to support BMF against what it reveals as bully-boy tactics and undue influence buying by the Sarawak linked company in Ottawa…..
The appalling attempt by Samling, one of the world’s largest and most notorious timber companies, to bully Indigenous rights group Save Rivers in Sarawak with a law suit to silence protest against eco-destruction has caught the attention of the global anti-SLAPP movement which is gathering pace…..
Just weeks ago it would have seemed inconceivable that the attack dogs from Britain’s defamation law firms, who have proved so relaxed about taking cash from all quarters to harass and silence journalists, would find themselves held to account. Now following an active campaign the UK government is taking action over their excesses together with other European authorities …..
Sarawak Report has been following the global money trail as kleptocrat and autocrat cash funnels through the off-shore system and into advanced ‘concierge’ economies where professionals serve and shield those who have pillaged their own countries. In 2022 we will occasionally shine a light on the so-called ‘London Laundromat’ to warn that corruption is an infectious disease that impacts and destroys governance beyond borders……
Native Rights Campaigner Denis Along faces imminent jail if he cannot find the RM10,000 the courts have punished him for daring to contest the seizure of his community’s lands to build a luxury hotel for the Taib family….
The Malaysian Government has stated that the Editor of Sarawak Report is a ‘fugitive’ who has “fled abroad to avoid prosecution”. For this they state they are issuing an INTERPOL Red Notice request. Does Malaysia need yet more such National Embarrassment over Najib and 1MDB?….
The UK claims to protect freedom of speech to enable journalists to do their job in the public interest. It also supports indulgent defamation, privacy and copyright laws. These and the enormous charges of London based law firms have attracted the global rich and powerful to hire UK ‘Reputation Lawyers’ – now elbowing each other for the business in the British courts. Sarawak Report has been a frequent target …..
INTERPOL have responded swiftly to the letter from fourteen civil society organisations requesting information about the Malaysian Arrest Warrant against the editor of Sarawak Report…..
For over two years Sarawak Report has kept silent on the civil action being pressed against its editor by the Sultanah of Terengganu, out of respect for her right to complain and for the due process of the courts. However, given the latest attempts to intimidate and even arrest the author on criminal charges we feel forced to speak out about the abuses in this case…..
With the support of the State Government companies like Samling have destroyed the lands of indigenous communities and left them utterly impoverished. Now the company is threatening legal action to prevent them protesting over its latest attempts to snatch remaining timber in the full knowledge such communities cannot afford to defend themselves in court …….
Hadi has let one whopping great wild cat out of the bag by admitting he was part of a political plot to over-turn the democratically elected government from the moment he and his secret allies were defeated in GE14…..
As the Swiss media start to take up the defamation case brought against the Sarawak focused Bruno Manser Fund by the Taib family company in Canada, we bring our own exclusive interview with Director Lukas Straumann…..
“It would be a very serious blow to me personally as well as my ability to rid my character of the stain of these allegations if I was not permitted to bring my claim before the English Court”. ……..
Hadi disowned articles written by his key witness RPK in a sworn statement to the London High Court, calling them “deplorable” and something he wished to “condemn”. He also said they were “inaccurate”………
Every key claim that Hadi swore to in his statement to the UK court last year has now been undermined by his subsequent actions and admissions as, just as Sarawak Report had predicted, he has now formally united with Najib and UMNO……
