Five journalists arrested in 48 hours

WE are reposting this article originally titled “Five journalists arrested in crackdown on independent media” published on the Reporters Without Borders website on March 31, 2015.

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of a total of five journalists in the past 48 hours with the aim of pressuring independent media to censor themselves and prevent them working freely.

Yesterday, the police raided the Kuala Lumpur offices of The Malaysian Insider, a news website also known as TMI, arresting managing editor Lionel Morais, Bahasa news editor Amin Shah Iskandarand features and analysis editor Zulkifli Sulongunder the 1948 Sedition Act and the 1998 Communications and Multimedia Act.

Click on the article to read more on the RSF website.

THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER office | Malaysian Insider photo from Reporters Sans Frontieres website

THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER office | Malaysian Insider photo from Reporters Sans Frontieres website

Freedom of the press

We have witness once again the conflict between the media and the government in the last Manila peninsula standoff. Which side you on?As for starters I believed that what the police did was acceptable. The mediamen act as human sheild for the rebels preventing the police to do thier duty. The mediamen were not force to stay in fact it is their choice to stay. They even out numbered the rebel soldiers. They are the main reason why the police could not storm the hotel. They also put the lives of the government forces in danger by providing live video coverage on troop movements and operational tactics. Media claim that it is the surpression of their freedom but from they don't know is that freedom of the press is not absolute. In freedom there is an obligation and responsibility.