Raja Petra arrested under ISA

[Ah Hai]

Controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin was arrested today under the Internal Security Act for allegedly being a threat to security, peace and public order.

 

[Ah Hai]

ISA arrest No 2: Sin Chew journalist held

Sin Chew Daily journalist Tan Hoon Cheng has been arrested today under the Internal Security Act at 8.30pm at her home in Bukit Mertajam, Penang.

 

[Ah Hai]

ISA dragnet widens: MP Teresa Kok too

DAP leader Teresa Kok has also been detained under the Internal Security Act - the third person to be detained without trial today

http://www.malaysiakini.com/index.php?f=1

 

[The MilkMan]

if you cannot get him to shutdown or stop it and the law also cannot do anything,cos he is not doing anything wrong.
so this is the only way that Badawi can get him to stop for awhile.
Badawi is just following the example of his former leader of UMNO,in 1987 Mahathir also did it.

 

[Ah Hai]

Malaysia's top blogger to be released from detention

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's leading blogger, Raja Petra Kamaruddin, will be released on Friday after a court overruled his detention under controversial internal security laws, his lawyer said.

Raja Petra, a leading government critic and founder of the popular Malaysia Today website, was detained in September under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for writing articles that allegedly insulted Islam.

His lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar said that Justice Syed Ahmad Helmy Syed Ahmad on Friday ordered the blogger to be produced at the Shah Alam High Court outside Kuala Lumpur at 0800 GMT and immediately released.

Malik said the judge decided that Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar had acted outside his powers by ordering Raja Petra to spend two years in detention.

"The judge ruled that under the circumstances which existed at the time that Raja Petra was detained did not satisfy the threshold conditions under the ISA," Malik told AFP.

"He granted the habeas corpus and declared the detention unlawful and ordered that Raja Petra be released immediately after he is brought to court," he said.

"The judge said the minister had acted without proper power."

Raja Petra is best known for his articles on politics, and had already been charged with sedition and defamation for linking Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife to the sensational murder of a Mongolian woman.

But he was also accused of threatening public security and causing racial tension by inciting hate in his articles on Islam -- a serious offence in predominantly Muslim Malaysia.

There has been a rash of detentions in recent months under the ISA, which allows for renewable two-year periods of detention without trial.

Malik said it was the first time that a court has ordered the release of any ISA detainees since 1989, when a clause was introduced that prohibited any judicial review once a detention order has been signed by the home minister.

"It is certainly an historic ruling and a profound moment for civil liberties in this country," he said.

However, he said the government can appeal the decision and Raja Petra could still be re-arrested. - AFP/vm

 

[jacobsgoh]

Malaysian govt not so powerful as lky's govt, or not so lucky as lky and gang.
now i understand that Malaysian system is not as corrupted as, you know ................

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

Interesting that this has come about just after Baginda was found innocent by the court in the murder trial.