Controlling the Narrative: The Law, Human Rights and 1MDB in Malaysia

Malaysia usually features at the periphery of international news, recent events have thrust the Southeast Asian nation into the limelight. In 2015, after recovering from the two airline tragedies of the previous year, Malaysia found itself again in the headlines of the international press. Since then, allegations of mismanagement of funds in the state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhard (1MDB) have dominated the news. 1MDB was set up in 2009 when Prime Minister Najib Razak came into office, and was supposed to oversee Kuala Lumpur’s transformation into a thriving commercial hub.

Yuhan Hu

I am a DPhil candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford. My research interests include contentious politics under authoritarian contexts and computational social science. Using cutting-edge computational methods, statistical analysis, and fieldwork, my DPhil thesis examines authoritarian regimes’ responses to collective action. In 2024, I was selected by the department as one of two doctoral researchers to spend a year as an exchange scholar at Yale University.

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