Why were ‘non-official media’ barred from nomination centres? NGO raises concern on the pattern


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 12 Sep 2020

PETALING JAYA: The Election Commission (EC) barring “non-official media” from entering nomination centres for the Sabah elections on Saturday (Sep 12) should be reconsidered, says the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ).

CIJ said that since the change in government in March, the Covid-19 pandemic had been increasingly used as a reason to sideline journalists and media practitioners who are not from state-owned agencies from covering important events of public interest.

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