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From: Informer
Date: 03 May 1999
Time: 23:13:28
Shaila Koshy, right, a news reporter from the English-language daily newspaper The Star, hands Malaysia's No. 2 leader Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi a petition for the repeal of laws limiting press freedoms, after a parliament meeting, Monday May 3, 1999. The petition, signed by 581 journalists from 11 newspapers and top editors from the country's three leading English-language dailies, was presented on World Press Freedom Day to protest the sweeping Printing Presses and Publications Act.