Kota Kinabalu: The “Pillars of Sabah” is a community art project jointly initiated in 2018 by renowned, multiple award-winning Sabah-born artist Red Hong Yi and educator, ecologist and filmmaker, Jared Abdul Rahman, in conjunction with Malaysia Day 2018. The artwork featured 30 Sabahan artist honouring 30 people from Sabah who have inspired them.
George Town, Malaysia – The arrest of graphic artist and social activist Fahmi Reza over a satirical song list poking fun at a comment made by Malaysia’s queen has rekindled debate over freedom of expression in the Southeast Asian nation.
Police arrested Fahmi, who came to prominence in 2015 with a now iconic clown caricature that lampooned then-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, on April 23, accusing him of insulting the queen with the playlist, which he titled Dengki Ke (Malay for “Are you jealous?”) and illustrated with a cover image of the royal.
He was also accused of sharing “offensive and menacing content” for the list, which he uploaded to Spotify and Apple Music, featuring songs including Jealousy by Queen and God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols.
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George Town, Malaysia – The arrest of graphic artist and social activist Fahmi Reza has rekindled the debate over freedom of expression in the Southeast Asian nation over a satirical list of songs that amused her in a comment by the Queen of Malaysia.
Police arrested Fahmi in 2015 on an iconic caricature of clowns who celebrated Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Raza on April 23 on charges of insulting a royal queen named Dengki Ke. jealous? “) and illustrated with the image of the royal skin.
He was also accused of sharing “offensive and threatening content” for the list, which he uploaded to Spotify and Apple Music, offering songs like “Queen’s Jealousy” and Sex God Pistols’s “God Save the Queen”.
KOTA KINABALU: The recent incident where artworks at the ruins of a colonial building downtown were removed should not dishearten local artists, says Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment minister Datuk Jafry Ariffin.