AL Jazeera has hit back at the National Film Development Corporation’s (Finas) assertion that it needed a licence to shoot a recent documentary in Malaysia, saying the corporation’s own guidelines states it is unnecessary for the category of filming involved.
In a tweet tonight, Al Jazeera English managing director Giles Trendle said that its 101 East programme, which aired the controversial documentary Locked Up in Malaysia’s Lockdown recently, did not flout Finas’ rules.