Police have raided a Malaysian opposition party’s headquarters to search for seditious material, sparking accusations today of a crackdown on political dissent.

Malaysia’s deputy police minister appeared to defend the stripping of a Chinese woman in custody, saying foreigners should “go back to their own country” if they think police there behaved maliciously.

Survivors of a shooting of Malaysian villagers by British colonial troops in 1948 are renewing a campaign to pressure the British government to acknowledge the killings were unjustified.

Malaysia’s highest court today rejected former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim’s appeal against his conviction and six-year prison term for corruption.