Authorities go after journalists, interviewees and 10 news you may have missed

KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

1. Police are investigating the journalists behind an Al Jazeera report that was critical of Malaysia's treatment of undocumented migrants. The Immigration Department is tracking down interviewees featured in the documentary.

2. Activist Heidy Quah said it was "upsetting and hurtful" after police questioned her over her Facebook post highlighting the alleged mistreatment of refugees.

3. Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzli urged the Perikatan Nasional government to stop pressuring the media and instead press on with a media council.

4. Umno supreme council member Annuar Musa clarified Umno's endorsement of Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin as the prime minister, stating that it was the current position, and he could not say if the general election would be called a few years down the road.

5. Former Bersatu Youth chief Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said he will not challenge efforts to cast him out of the party.

6. Inspector-general of police Abdul Hamid Bador denied that cops had sought to question participants of Parlimen Digital, an initiative to show the government that a virtual Dewan Rakyat sitting is possible.

7. In a special report, Malaysiakini looked at alleged fraud in the Customs Department's acquisition of X-ray scanners.

8. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mustapa Mohamed, who is in charge of the Economic Planning Unit, gave his assurance that a planned reversion of the East Coast Rail Link alignment won't lead its pricetag to skyrocket by RM20 billion.

9. Election Commission chairperson Azhar Azizan Harun and Pengerang MP Azalina Othman are expected to be nominated as the Dewan Rakyat speaker and deputy speaker.

10. Mustapa Mohamed denied that the government was abandoning a commitment to revise the poverty line.

11. Responding to a bid to disqualify him as part of the prosecution team against former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak in the 1MDB-linked court cases, Special Prosecutor Gopal Sri Ram said former attorney-general Apandi Ali's claim that he had conveyed a message that former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad wanted Najib arrested was "incorrect".