Description
On 22 July, Police issued a wanted for questioning alert on veteran British journalist Nick Kochan. The alert was issued immediately after The Asia Times' freelance journalist published an article on an interview with UMNO Vice President Mohammad Hasan (Tok Mat), to which Tok Mat claimed that some of his remarks regarding former Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak related to the 1MDB scandal were taken out of context.
Investigations are ongoing under Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 for alleged improper use of internet facilities and services and Section 505(b) of the Penal Code for allegedly making a statement conducing to public mischief.
Information
Number of attacked persons or entities related to media
1
Do they work as freelance or media?
Yes
Position in media
Status of journalists
Gender
Male
Age
Country
Kuala Lumpur
Full name or name of group
Identified
The name of perpetrator (individual/group)
Royal Malaysian Police (RMP)
Background (state actor or non state actor)
Gender
Attack mention about gender background/sexual wording?
No
Date of incident
Year of incident
2022
Type of incident
Criminal lawsuit/charge: Identify which criminal lawsuit use for this case including defamation, fake-news, publication, etc)
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