John Berthelsen is an Editor at Asia Sentinel. He specializes in covering themes related to energy and mining, banking, and the BFSI sector, with a keen focus on journalism and media. His insights and analyses have been featured in notable publications such as Asia Sentinel and The Diplomat.
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Numbers of journalists, media professionals killed spike amid growing antagonism
Amid the relative detritus of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s struggling government, one bright thing stands out, and that’s the performance of the country’s judiciary, which seems to have found its bearings after the years of political destruction by former premier Mahathir Mohamed and others. Last week, former premier Najib Razak – erstwhile Bossku – was ordered jailed on December 26 for a further 15 years and given a massive US$2.8 billion fine for power abuse and money laundering in the biggest trial of the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal. a ruling that could have big political ramifications.
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The arrest last week of journalist and bookseller Leticia Wong Man-huen on sedition charges brings to at least 29 journalists who have been arrested in Hong Kong since China ordered its sweeping crackdown on the city in 2020. At least nine journalists and press freedom defenders are currently imprisoned, according to data compiled by press freedom organizations, including Jimmy Lai, the founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, six of his former editors and executives, and additional journalists and editors such as those from Stand News.
In 1789, the framers of the American Constitution returned to Philadelphia to draft a Bill of Rights to protect the new country’s citizens from the government they had just created. James Madison, drawing inspiration from the English Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta and the Virginia Declaration of Rights, wrote the 10 amendments, which contained some of …
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