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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Unfair to deny me entry and then try me in absentia, says Sarawak Report’s Clare Brown


Sarawak Report founder Clare Rewcastle Brown, who was denied entry into Sarawak last Wednesday, said moves to push through a case in the local courts were unfair as they were being done in her absence.
“I do not accept the ‘out of jurisdiction’ order granted to try the case in Sarawak as being appropriate, especially as it was done in a state I am not even allowed to enter,” thestar.com quoted her as saying.
Brown has been an outspokenb critic of Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud and has written numerous reports of alleged graft in his government.
She is facing a civil suit over her article published on May 1 titled “Dirty Dayak Datuks — BN’s Crony Candidates”.
“It is not fair to push the case through and win it in my absence because of my failure to defend myself and then to try and enforce such a judgement in the UK,” she said.
The state government’s ban on Brown from entering Sarawak to defend herself in court has attracted global media attention.
The suit was filed a day after the article was posted at Sarawak Report and sought, among others, to have the article removed.
Hearings are on going in Sarawak.
So far, a duplicate of an injunction against Brown has been struck out while a date in August has been set to hear her application to strike out the entire lawsuit.
Brown recently won the International Press Institute award for her work on Radio Free Sarawak.

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