Posts Tagged with ‘malaysia-today’

While 15 May is set aside for Bloggers for Human Rights, the reality is that bloggers in many countries risk their safety every day to continue doing what so many of us spend weekends whining about incessantly.
Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin, the editor of the news portal Malaysia Today, had his home raided on Friday, and was arrested and jailed on charges of sedition. The reason? He claimed in a blog post that Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak [...]

Malaysia isn’t the hottest spot on the Web. Naturally, that title is reserved for Silicon Valley. Nonetheless, the government of the Southeast Asian country is raising a fit over what it feels is a dangerous insurgency in the form of a blogger complex that is attacking the nation’s king and the religion of Islam.
And it’s threatening to use “tough anti-terrorism laws” to combat commentators who the governing party believes to be a threat security. Etcetera, etcetera.
Already, the ruling party has [...]