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10,000 books and counting: Meet the team behind Buku Beyond Bars, a project giving prisoners access to quality books

By Tania Jayatilaka, Tatler
3 October 2025

We hear from the team behind Buku Beyond Bars—a movement that collected 10,000 books for Malaysian prisons It’s a crowded office at the Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism and Human Rights—but not the crowd you’re thinking of. Walking in that Tuesday morning, I was met with every book-lover’s dream: a pile of what appeared to be…

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