Nathaniel Arrested
Jul 13th, 2007 by Tian
I was just informed that Nathaniel Tan, the officer in-charge of IT and website, has been arrested at 16:30hr just now.
Nathaniel is a 27 year old graduate from Harvard University. We began to know each other last year and became good friend. Early this year, I recruited him to work under KeADILan’s Information Bureau.
Last month, He was appointed as the Executive Secretary for the chairperson of the Foundation for the Future (FFF), Anwar Ibrahim.
This afternoon, 3 officers who claimed to be police officers from Bukit Aman visited the office of Yayasan Aman in Philio-Damansara Petaling Jaya. At that time, only Nathaniel and Eng Kiat were in the office.
The police officers told Nat that they “want to discuss about internet”. No further details given, and the police officers did not even identify themselves. Nat was asked to follow them back to the police station, and to bring his computer notebook along.
Eng Kiat, a part-time journalist for online Suara Keadilan called me as soon as Nat was taken away.
I immediately alerted various leaders of KeADILan. Lateefah phoned Nat immediately and found out that he was still in the basement car park. She advised him to wait for the lawyers in the car park. William Leong, another lawyer whose office is also in Philio, rushed down to the basement but found that they had gone.
Since then, all attempts to contact Nat on his handphone have failed. Until now, his whereabout is still unknown to us. When contacted by our lawyers, officer of Police HQ at Bukit Aman denied Nat has been detained.
We are not certain about the motive of arresting Nat. No doubt the authorities are trying to extract information from him through intimidation.
We must how our strongest condemnation against such state repression!
Update On Nat’s Arrest…
So far, all attempts to contact Nat by his cellphone has failed and officers from Bukit Aman has denied that Nat has been detained (see Tian’s blog for further information). A solidarity gathering will be held at 9.00 pm tonight……
Is there anyway to contact the mobile phone company to trace where the last place of NAT was? Maybe the mobile phone company could trace if NAT’s phone was in the vicinity of Bukit Aman ?
[...] Further details here, here and here. [...]
brute force eh, the usual way BN scumbags can only think of. lowlife scums, sampah masyarakat.
hey all you BN scumbags who are keeping an eye of these “cyber threat”, BN stands for Barisan Najis, yes, no joke. in english we call it National Landfill.
Hope all will be OK. Police officers that didn’t id themselves – that’s not proper procedures right? Sure they are real police officers, and not some UPK thugs?
Probably looking for the real Altantuya photos huh? I do hope you guys practice safe computing – mirrored and encrypted hard drives.
[...] party called Parti Keadilan Rakyat or PKR. Tian Chua, the information chief of PKR offers some background information on Nathanial Tan. Nathaniel is a 27 year old graduate from Harvard University. We began to know each other last [...]
i heard he just been freed! relieved.
CONGRATULATION TO KHAIRY!!! NOW POLICE HAVE MOVED IN TO DETAINED PKR MAN…THE CONSPIRACY TO TOPPLE NAJIB HAD BEGIN …THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING…NAJIB IS SLEEPLESS AND TWITCHING…..
KONSPIRASI KHAIRY UNTUK MENJATUHKAN NAJIB SUDAH BERMULA..
[...] für die Partei „Parti Keadilan Rakyat“ (PKR). Tian Chuan, Pressesprecher der PKR bietet Hintergrundinformationen zu Nathaniel Tan. Nathaniel (27) ist Harvard-Absolvent. Wir lernten uns letztes Jahr kennen und [...]
sign the petition http://www.PetitionOnline.com/nat2007/
[...] Nathaniel Arrested [...]
[...] rare rare occasion when I was surfing on PPS on Friday night, I had read about the Nat issue on E Contrario, but there weren’t much details (Nat’s whereabout was still unknown), then I found out [...]
Dr Anwar,
Dont be afraid of the police.
Dont be afraid of ISA.
Dont be afraid of Abdullah Badawi.
Dont be afraid of UMNO.
Dont be afraid of corruption.
Dont be afraid of abuse of power.
Dont be afraid of imprisonment.
Dont be afraid of Ezam.
Dont be afraid of those who abandon the ship.
Dont be afraid of Official Secrets Act.
Dont be afraid of Anti Corruption Agency.
COME AND RESCUE ME!!!
COME AND RESCUE ME!!!
COME AND RESCUE ME!!!
COME AND RESCUE ME!!!
COME AND RESCUE ME!!!
COME AND RESCUE ME!!!
SOS!!!
NATHANIEL HERE!!
[...] party called Parti Keadilan Rakyat or PKR. Tian Chua, the information chief of PKR offers some background information on Nathaniel Tan. Nathaniel is a 27 year old graduate from Harvard University. We began to know each other last year [...]
[...] employers and lawyers were alerted, and police station hopping round was mounted to look for Nat, and to ensure his [...]