Democracy Slips Another Notch in Malaysia
Deeply corrupt state official freed without trial
A June 9 decision by Malaysia’s Attorney General Idrus Harun to decline to bring corruption charges against the former chief minister of the East Malaysian state of Sabah is a depressing demonstration that the country’s legal system is far from having been cleaned up after the 2018 election drove out the indelibly corrupt Barisan Nasional coalition.
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