UN accuses Asian nations of censorship during pandemic


Malaysia is among the Asian countries whose governments are using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to clamp down on free expression and tighten censorship. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, June 3, 2020.

THE UN rights chief warned today that Asian countries were using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to clamp down on free expression and tighten censorship.

In a statement, Michelle Bachelet expressed alarm over how censorship had been tightened in several countries, along with arbitrary arrests and detention of people who criticise their government’s response, or even who simply share information or views on the pandemic. 


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