Posted in Announcement, Crackdown on internet, Current Issues on Jul 17th, 2007 7 Comments »
Just heard from lawyers that the DPP said that Nat Tan will be released today. There is no information whether he will be charged.
He will be out anytime after 12noon. He will be released from the Cyber-Crime Division of Police HQ, located at Bukit Perdana, behind Bank Negara.
Please gather at the main gate from 12 [...]
Posted in Crackdown on internet, Current Issues, Freedom of Information, Politics, Viewpoint on Jul 17th, 2007 2 Comments »
photo from MYKMU
Nat is accused of linking his blog to a website containing allegations of corruption of Deputy Minister of Internal Security Johari Baharom. The revelation came into many people’s blogs about 6 months ago. Nat was in fact very careful in not displaying any defamatory statement.
However the incident sparked an open dispute between the [...]
Posted in Announcement, Crackdown on internet, Current Issues, Politics on Jul 16th, 2007 2 Comments »
A gathering in solidarity with Nat was held outside IPD Dang Wangi last night (15 July). It was organized in a short notice. Unfortunately, I was unable to be there because had to attend a program in Melaka.
I was pleased that the event went well. Some 100 people turned up. People lite candles, and there [...]
Posted in Crackdown on internet, Current Issues, Festival, Human Rights, Party on Jul 14th, 2007 16 Comments »
This note has been passed to Nat last night, clandestinely.
Nat was brought to court this morning. Apparently he was transported to Jalan Duta court complex at about 11:00hr. However the police did not inform our lawyers or his family. Luckily Utaya Kumar, a lawyer who is heading an NGO Police Watch, was in the same [...]
Posted in Crackdown on internet, Current Issues, Party, Politics on Jul 14th, 2007 19 Comments »
A SB photographer at IPD Dang Wangi last night (13 July). His job is to take our pictures for filing. I keep a file on SBs too.
Eng Kiat who is working with Nat as a part-time journalist for our website recalls the incident of arrest:
At 4.40pm this evening, three Malay men knocked on Yayasan Aman’s [...]
Posted in Crackdown on internet, Current Issues, Human Rights on Jul 14th, 2007 14 Comments »
Police played hide and seek with us over the detention of Nat.
We started searching for his whereabout immediately after his arrest in the afternoon. Only after whole night searching, Nat’s place of detention was ascertained.
Nat’s girlfriend, Li Tsin was of course very troubled. She is working for Malaysiakini and had been covering the court [...]
Posted in Announcement, Crackdown on internet, Current Issues on Jul 13th, 2007 1 Comment »
A gathering in solidarity with Nathaniel Tan will be held in front of Police HQ Bukit Aman at 9pm tonight.
Come to show our support and protest against intimidation.
Free Nat now!
Posted in Crackdown on internet, Current Issues, Incident, Politics on Jul 13th, 2007 16 Comments »
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, [...]
Posted in Activities, Crackdown on internet, Current Issues, Human Rights on Feb 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
The defamation lawsuit by the New Straits Times against bloggers was heard in chamber today. The trial was heard in the Civil Court in Wisma Denmark. Whenever I attend cases here, I always thought of Hemlet’s “something is rotten in the State of Denmark”. The phrase aptly reflects the state of judiciary system in our [...]