KUALA LUMPUR: After 13 years of struggle, social activist Irene Fernandez was finally freed from a charge of publishing false news about abuse of migrant workers in a detention camp.
The 62-year-old director of Tenaganita, which she set up in 1991 to fight for migrant workers’ rights here, had her conviction set aside by the High Court yesterday.
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