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July 18, 2011 (10.20pm)
The Economist Report upon BERSIH2.O defaced
by Hazlan Zakaria & Wong Teck Chi@www.malaysiakini.com
Opposition parliamentarians have claimed which a July sixteen book of The Economist has been defaced by a Home Ministry in an apparent try to censor a report upon a Bersih 2.0 convene for electoral reform.
The Economist July16 issue has been censored or black inked upon Bersih story by Home Ministry, reads a twitter by Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran.
In photos distributed via micro-blog site Twitter, a report headlines Political Affray in Malaysia: Taken to a Cleaners shows lines blacked out by what seems to be a permanent marker pen.
Malaysiakini could not rught away determine a claim, but a more aged with a online version reveals which a lines struck out impute to allegations of military and supervision misconduct:
- and a single male died of a heart attack, in a first paragraph.
- The impetus itself was afterwards banned, nonetheless a authorities offering Bersih a stadium to encounter in and afterwards withdrew a offer, in a second paragraph
- The heavy-handed Police strategy have annoyed a lot of anger; a supervision has conceded an central review in to claims of military brutality. In a single example (caught upon film), military seemed to fire tear gas and H2O cannon in to a hospital where protesters were sheltering from a rod charge, in a fourth paragraph.
When contacted, Kulasegaran criticised a action as uncalled for. In this day and age only a military run state would do this. They have been perplexing to hide essay which could be true, since (they have been afraid) it will be review by a public and they will believe it. The supervision is still (suffe! ring fro m) rejection syndrome.
The DAP leader however, dismissed a try as null and void as a full essay is accessible online anyway.
PKRs Tian Chua also tweeted upon a matter and posted photos of a censored pages: Im certain @TheEconomist readers have been smart enough to know how to get a full article, but a censorship reflects a stupidity & insecurity of an strict regime. He observed which a portrayal of a Jews as bogeyman (by UMNO owned-daily) Utusan (Malaysia) & @TheEconomist censorship weigh an insecure regime.
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