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KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian conglomerate has denied exploiting children as workers and said that it will take legal action against any “malicious defamation”, after 20 welfare homes police said were linked to it were raided over allegations of exploitation and sexual abuse involving 402 children.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Associated Press —
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities on Wednesday rescued 402 children and arrested 171 suspects after raiding 20 welfare homes linked to an Islamic business group, in which children were exploited and sexually abused, the national police chief said.
The alleged victims – 201 boys and 201 girls aged between one and 17 years old – were taken to the Police Training Academy for health screenings, Inspector General of Police Razarudin Husain told a press conference in Kuantan, Pahang.
Malaysia’s former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be charged with sedition on Tuesday, police and his party have said, over alleged comments about the previous king’s appointment of Anwar Ibrahim instead of him after a tight 2022 general election.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A man stormed a police station in Malaysia and killed two police officers early Friday in what’s being investigated as a Jemaah Islamiyah terror attack. The man also injured another officer before being shot dead.
Friday’s attack, which occurred before dawn in the Ulu Tiram district around 30 minutes from the causeway to Singapore, involved a lone attacker who may have had links to the JI network in Johor state, according to police chief Razarudin Husain.
Vern’s, a high-street shoe brand in Malaysian shopping centres, has been thrust into the dangerous cross hairs of the nation’s conservative-driven cancel culture, which critics say is over-the-top, divisive and used cynically by Islamist parties seeking political gain in the Muslim-majority country.