FILE PHOTO: Illegal immigrants wait in line to be picked up by immigration officers outside an apartment under enhanced lockdown, during the movement control order due to the COVID-19 outbreak, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 1, 2020. KUALA LUMPUR: News broadcaster Al Jazeera on Thursday rejected allegations by Malaysian authorities that a documentary it aired last week about the arrest of undocumented migrants during the coronavirus pandemic was inaccurate, misleading and unfair.
In a statement late Thursday, Al Jazeera said it stood by the"professionalism, quality and impartiality of its journalism" and called on Malaysia to withdraw the criminal investigation."Charging journalists for doing their jobs is not the action of a democracy that values free speech. Journalism is not a crime," it said.
Al Jazeera said that it had repeatedly sought to obtain the government's view but that requests for interviews with senior ministers and officials were not accepted.
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