{
  "id": 15726645,
  "title": "UK academic fights to be allowed to leave Malaysia for father’s funeral",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/uk-academic-fights-to-be-allowed-to-leave-malaysia-for-fathers-funeral",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-20T09:28:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Vibes",
    "slug": "the-vibes",
    "url": "https://www.thevibes.com/articles/news/128576/uk-academic-fights-to-be-allowed-to-leave-malaysia-for-fathers-funeral"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A BRITISH academic and economist who has lived in Malaysia for more than 20 years is locked in a desperate, last-ditch human rights battle, fighting for judicial permission to leave Malaysia to attend his father’s funeral in Liverpool in the United K...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}