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Malaysia’s PAS Backs out of Libel Suit, Pays Off

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Mar 02, 2019
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Malaysia’s fundamentalist-based Parti Islam se-Malaysia, or PAS, has quietly paid RM1.423 million (US$350,000) in expenses to get out of a libel suit it filed against the crusading Sarawak Report and its editor Clare Rewcastle Brown.

The confidential out-of-court settlement was signed on Jan. 24, agreeing that Sarawak Report’s legal bills in a London cou…

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