Australian journalists detained in M'sia for trying to question Najib

Kuala Lumpur

TWO Australian journalists were detained and barred from leaving Malaysia after they had tried to "aggressively" question Prime Minister Najib Razak about a corruption scandal, police said on Sunday.

The duo were detained after they crossed a "security line and aggressively tried to approach the prime minister" who was visiting a mosque in Kuching on the island of Borneo, according to a police statement. "Both of them were subsequently arrested for failing to comply with police instructions not to cross the security line," read the statement.