Anti-graft group says Malaysia making progress in media freedom
Cynthia Gabriel of the Centre to Combat Corruption and Croynism speaks during the Report Launch and Roundtable Discussion in Kuala Lumpur April 12, 2019. ― Picture by Mukhriz Hazim
“Media freedom is more robust now than it was prior to May 2018, so people like me can appear on television, people like Edmund Bon is on television every other day,” she said. “In this so-called new Malaysia, we have seen all kinds of drama happening from manifestos not really being realised, backsliding, halfway-through promises being realised, or some more or less being realised, depending, but it’s nowhere near where we were hoping it would go,” she said.
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