Sarawak Report
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Screenshot of the homepage as on 9 July 2016
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Type of site
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News, Document archive and disclosure |
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| Available in | English, Iban, Malay and Mandarin |
| Created by | Clare Rewcastle Brown |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 38,491 in world, (1,107 in Malaysia) (Oct 2015[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 12 February 2010 |
| Current status | Active |
Sarawak Report is an investigative journalism online news resource that offers "an alternative vision of justice, transparency and a fairer future in Sarawak." It is based in London.
Sarawak Report’s website was blocked by Malaysia's internet regulatory body, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), in the summer of 2015, approximately two weeks after the website started to reported on the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal. Sarawak Report continued to reach the Malaysian public through Medium.com, but that was also blocked in January 2016.
The sarawakreport.org domain name was registered on 12 February 2010. The website published its first post focusing on the rights of the indigenous people in the jungles of the Baram Region, Sarawak, Malaysia. On 15 June 2010, it published its first exposé on the Sarawak chief minister family's properties in Canada. The website was initially operated anonymously. It described itself as "a group of citizens and onlookers deeply concerned by the situation in Sarawak, East Malaysia." In November 2010, its sister organisation named Radio Free Sarawak was formed. On 22 February 2011, Clare Rewcastle Brown decided to go public and to claim responsibility of the website after her American informant, Ross Boyert, was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel room. Since then, Clare Rewcastle became the founder, the editor-in-chief, and the spokesperson for Sarawak Report.
According to the Sarawak Report website, it exists to provide a platform for those who denied access to the state-controlled media, and "to offer an alternative vision of justice, transparency and a fairer future."
Sarawak Report was dubbed as the " of Sarawak" following its chain of exposés of alleged land grabs by the family of Sarawak's chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and their international property empire.
In June 2010, Sarawak Report began its first exposé by publishing an article detailing about Canadian properties owned by the family of Taib Mahmud. This was followed by subsequent exposés on his properties in United States and London. Taib Mahmud's former aide, Ross Boyert was the major source for Sarawak Report on the Taib family property empire in the United States. Exposés by Sarawak Report have led to investigations by Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Canada into Taib family alleged assets.
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