In praise of ... Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin 5.0 star rating

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/24/malaysia

If jailing bloggers has become the latest way repressive regimes cope with the blogosphere, Malaysia has taken this trend one step further this week. They served their highest-profile anti-government blogger, Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin, with a two-year detention order, removing him from the oversight of the courts. It is no small source of shame that the law they are using to detain him without charge is a legacy of British colonial rule against the communist insurgency.

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Created by Niluccio on 24 September 2008

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Excellent editorial from the Guardian on this imprisoned Malaysian blogger - subject of a recent Amnesty media blog: http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid...

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