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Malaysia Frees "Anti-Islamic" Blogger

Posted by timothy on from the how-merciful-of-them dept.

quarterbuck writes "The Malaysian blogger who was under arrest on sedition charges has been freed by the courts. Raja Petra Kamarudin's comments were interpreted by the government as being anti-Islam and anti-government; he was arrested under Malaysia's Internal Security Act. Now, a court has ruled that the government was overstepping its limits in what is being called a landmark ruling."

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  1. Re:Blogger's blog by aproposofwhat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Apart from Malaysia, Britain's probably the worst - luckily the Neues Arbeit administration was stopped from extending detention to 42 days from 28, but guess what?

    The very next day, Wacqui Jacqui Schmidt (our truly imbecilic Home Secretary) tabled legislation that would allow 42 days to be voted for by the House of Commons, "in an emergency".

    Even places like Turkey restrict detention without charge or trial to 7 days - why is my country different?

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