New Malaysia Government Drops Sedition Charges Against Cartoonist, Others

Jul 31, 2018

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Malaysia’s attorney general has dropped all charges against the irrepressible political cartoonist Zunar, who defied deposed Prime Minister Najib Razak with a stinging series of almost-daily cartoons on the independent news website Malaysiakini that could have put him in prison for 43 years if the Barisan Nasional had pulled out a victory in national el…

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