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Radio Free Sarawak, The ‘Naughty Radio’….
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BANNED!
Clare Rewcastle Brown, editor of whistleblower website Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak,
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Published on Jul 3, 2013
Clare Rewcastle Brown, a British journalist running Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak, was barred from entering Kuching on July 3, 2013.
She was attempting to visit her lawyers to prepare her defence against a defamation suit brought by a transnational corporation operating in Kuching and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
She described the suit as an abuse of the judicial process because she believe she will be denied a fair trial and challenged the company to sue her in the UK.
The above video was recorded by a staff of one of her lawyers who met her at the airport before she was deported to Singapore.
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Malaysiakini
Clare Rewcastle Brown, editor of whistleblower website Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak, was denied entry into Sarawak today when she was attempting to enter the state to prepare her defence for a defamation suit brought against her.
Arriving from Singapore at the Kuching International airport at 1.15pm, the avid critic of Sarawak state administration and Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud was issued a notice of refusal of entry by the state Immigration Department and deported back to Singapore at 3.40pm.
In a short video recorded by her lawyer’s staff at the airport, Brown said that she was well aware that she was on Sarawak’s “blacklist” but she had to attempt to enter Kuching to prepare her legal defence.
“I feel compelled to make the effort to come to Sarawak because I wish to defend myself, stand up to accusations made against me and meet my lawyers,” she said.
Brown explained that the plaintiff was a transnational company that is listed on the stock exchange in the UK and Europe. She refused to name the plaintiff for now.
‘Come sue me in the UK’
She said that she did not believe that she will be given a fair trial in Malaysia because the plaintiff was influential and challenged them to sue her in the UK.
Whistleblower website editor banned from entering S’wak
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