En janvier 2026, une femme transgenre a été inculpée devant le tribunal de la charia de Kota Bharu — la première personne dans l'histoire de la Malaisie à faire l'objet de poursuites pour avoir subi une chirurgie de réassignation sexuelle. L'affaire, engagée en vertu de l'article 18 du Code pénal de la charia de Kelantan (I) de 2019, se situe à la jonction de l'appareil juridique islamiste en pleine expansion en Malaisie, de la répression structurelle de la dissidence progressiste et d'un (…)

In January 2026, a trans woman was charged in the Kota Bharu Syariah Court --- the first person in Malaysia's history to be prosecuted for undergoing gender reassignment surgery. The case, brought under Section 18 of Kelantan's Syariah Criminal Code Enactment (I) 2019, sits at the intersection of Malaysia's expanding Islamist legal apparatus, the structural suppression of progressive dissent, and a dual legal system whose boundaries are being redrawn from within. Malaysia operates two (…)

The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world's biggest oil companies are planning to increase production The largest oil companies plan to increase production by an average of 14% between 2024 and 2030 according to data from the Climate Transition Centre at the London School of Economics. Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters As the world swelters in ever more dangerous heat, why are oil companies being allowed to turn up the gas (…)