Journalist who helped bring down Najib’s government returns to a ‘reforming’ Malaysia
Once denied entry to the country where she was born, Clare Rewcastle Brown has been welcomed back with open arms and selfies
Clare Rewcastle Brown was harassed and vilified for years for waging a campaign to expose Malaysian corruption that helped topple the country’s long-ruling government.
The British investigative journalist is now back in the country of her birth after being blacklisted for years, and being treated like a celebrity in a sign of the whirlwind changes since the May 9 elections.
No one is more stunned than Rewcastle, who said she expects to see further startling revelations of corruption and misrule emerge as a reformist administration cleans house.
“There is so much that’s going to come tumbling out now,” she said in Kuala Lumpur. “Everyone is gobsmacked as they see these things happening. There are going to be more amazing scenes to come.”
Rewcastle, now 58, has been a thorn in the side of Malaysia’s ruling elite for years, working from abroad to expose larceny and misrule, focusing mainly on Sarawak, where she was born and spent her early years.