Amanah Youth urges Home Ministry to shut down Sarawak Tribune
Amanah Youth International Bureau chairperson, Mus'ab Muzahar, emphasised that the party's youth wing strongly condemns the newspaper's 'disrespectful' actions of publishing a defamatory headline on Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who was killed in a Zionist attack in Gaza.
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