RPK taken to Prison..

..after declining bail after sedition charge
star - Raja Petra, 58, became the first blogger to be charged under the Sedition Act, making it a test case. He is accused of publishing the article “Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell” in the website www.malaysia-today.net.

The article is alleged to have contained nine paragraphs of seditious words. Composed: Raja Petra looking out from inside the police lock-up after being charged at the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court yesterday.

He is said to have committed the offence at his house in Jalan BRP 5/5 in Bukit Rahman Putra in Sungai Buloh that day. When the interpreter read out to him the alleged seditious words, Judge Nurmala Salim interjected by asking her to pronounce the exact words as highlighted in the six pages of Appendix A.

The interpreter took 11 minutes to read out the allegedly seditious words to him. Upon hearing the details of his charge from the interpreter at noon, Raja Petra, who clasped his hands behind his back, claimed trial. Clad in a short-sleeved yellow shirt and blue jeans, Raja Petra was composed throughout the court proceedings. If convicted, he can be fined a maximum of RM5,000 or jailed up to three years or both under Section 4(1)(c) of the Act.(more..)