Arrest warrant for blogger Raja Petra
Malaysian police obtained a warrant of arrest yesterday against Malaysia Today website editor, Raja Petra Kamaruddin. -NST
Thu, Jul 17, 2008
New Straits Times
KUALA LUMPUR: Police obtained a warrant of arrest yesterday against Malaysia Today website editor, Raja Petra Kamaruddin.
He is expected to be charged today with criminal defamation linked to allegations in his statutory declaration on June 18 that implicated Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, in the murder of Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Police confirmed that a warrant of arrest had been issued.
The other two, were army bomb expert Lt-Col Aziz Buyong and his wife, an aide to Rosmah, Norhayati Hassan.
On May 6, Raja Petra was charged under the Sedition Act 1948 for posting the article "Let's send the Altantuya mur-derers to hell" on the website www.malaysia-today.net on April 25. The article linked the three as well as events that allegedly took place before Altantuya's murder.