Censorship: Malaysian Blogger On Trial For Sedition

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Censorship: Malaysian Blogger On Trial For Sedition

10-07-2008, 12:31 PM,

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Censorship: Malaysian Blogger On Trial For Sedition

Quote:One of Malaysia's most prominent bloggers and a high-profile critic of the government has gone on trial for sedition.

Raja Petra Kamarudin, who is already being held under Malaysia's Internal Security Act (ISA), could be sentenced to three years in jail if he is convicted.

In an entry on his Web site - Malaysia Today - he allegedly implied that Malaysia's deputy prime minister, Najib Tun Razak, was involved in the high-profile murder of a young Mongolian woman...

full article: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-p...19616.html

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