KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian police on Tuesday raided Al Jazeera's Kuala Lumpur office and seized computers as part of an investigation into a documentary about migrants that has angered the government, the broadcaster said.
The documentary -"Locked Up in Malaysia's Lockdown" - looked at the detention of undocumented foreigners when strict coronavirus curbs were in place, as well as the plight of other migrants."Conducting a raid on our office and seizing computers is a troubling escalation in the authorities' crackdown on media freedom," said Mr Giles Trendle, managing director of Al Jazeera English.
Seven Al Jazeera journalists, including five Australians, were called in for questioning last month while a Bangladeshi migrant worker interviewed in the programme has been arrested. Authorities insist that the arrests in May of undocumented migrants were necessary to protect the public, although rights groups raised concerns that placing them in detention centres could increase the risk of coronavirus infection.
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