Malaysian parliament bars media, media boycotts parliament

The media representatives, who were covering the second day meeting of the second meeting of the first session of the 12th Parliament, were informed that they would only be allowed to be at one corner of the lobby which has been designated for news conferences.

No statement was issued by Parliament’s administration on this new ruling earlier, nor was there any verbal instructions.

Barriers were put up with sign-ages stating that media were not allowed to be in the areas. The only statement received by the media from the Parliament administration was on Friday which informed of a new ruling limiting only five reporters from each media organisations to cover Parliament proceedings due to security reasons.