Reporters Without Borders denounces MCMC’s ‘wave of suspensions’

The international NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil to end a wave of censorship targeting online news websites.

“RSF is very concerned by this wave of suspensions by Malaysian authorities, without any explanations nor judicial control, of news websites critical of the government,” the group’s Asia-Pacific bureau director Cédric Alviani said in a statement yesterday.

He said such actions...