RPK and Kak Marina just after they came down from questioning. Doesn't she look relaxed?UPDATE: So off we went and there were quite a number of us at the Dang Wangi Police Station there to support RPK and Kak Marina. Rocky, Zorro, Shanghai Stephen, Black and several others turned up, including the press. Just after 11am, Kak Marina, dressed in a colourful baju kurung and her hubby went in and the rest of us settled down to wait.
Nuraina, Rocky, Zorro and Black after having the police station canteen's nasi ayam and nasi goreng kampong. Highly recommended if you ever have to spend time there!They told us not to wait if it was another long session but in fact they came out after about an hour. I'm sure you can get the details of what happened from MT so I won't repeat them here.
But it's only just starting. While we were chatting with RPK and Kak Marina after they came down, we heard that another blogger had had his computer seized and he's also been ordered to report to the police station with a list of all his assets.
Meantime, this crackdown isn't limited to pesky bloggers, it is even affecting those few voices in the mainstream media that dare to speak out. Zainah Anwar's popular Friday column in the NST and Tunku Aziz's column in the New Sunday Times have both been cancelled. Add that to Amir Muhammad's also-cancelled column and what are we left with?
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ORIGINAL POSTING: No, not me but the other one, Mrs RPK. Nuraina and I and many others are heading to Dang Wangi police station to lend moral support. Hope they don't keep her as long as they did RPK.
In case you don't think the situation is getting bad, read this.
Totally crazy desperate people! What is happening to this country?
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Vengeance of the unscrupulously desperate,
Sorry ass of the fake.
Embellishing tarnished reputes - by hook or by crooks!!
Dpm should know.
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Police have bungled in practically every criminal case in the country. But when it comes to bloggers and opposition supporters, police are superb. Crime rate is rising, especially rape cases, and corruption has arguably reached an all-time high, but police are not bothered. they prefer to go after bloggers. Easy job for them. Well done, police
MM, I feel sorry for this country. But there is still light at the end of the tunnel, and it comes from bloggers like you. Fear not! You have the readers' support. As Zorro said,' Sock it to them!'
Good support Marina M. Shows the women have more B*** than our country's finest in blue.
Not really their fault either...hold their bosses to accountability!
Sorry not in the country or I will be there to face down this cowardly act!
Good luck Marinax2
a freer press and more democratic space under this administration? answer is obvious, isnt it? just wondering the country is descending the same path as Zimbabwee which is towards a police state?
Thanks for being there, Marina. Am glad you and Ena turned up. Women bloggers will be a force to be reckoned with if they unite and support each other (and the men, of course). Women write from the heart more naturally than men do.
I know Marina Lee Abdullah is a busy grandma. You've got to be busy married to Raja Petra. But I hope she'll find time to start a blog of her own.
She has a lot of stories to share with us, men and women who are proud citizens of this country.
Good luck to all of you.
Differences we may have.
But similarities in fundamentals will unite us.
I may not agree with everything u say, but We all want the same thing. Security for our families, and a better future for our children.
God bless & persevere
Steve O, I assume that's also directed at me. Thank you and yes we will persevere. Too important not to.
kak marina, Do u have any idea whose computer was seized by the police?
love ur site.keep up the good work.
thanks.
"But I hope she'll find time to start a blog of her own."
Rocky if she starts blogging it'll be juicier than RPK's MT! hahahaha
yes... that's mean the election is around the corner...
and now government very desperate to get support from the public...
p/s: marina, any comment about you are in the government list of wanted bloggers?
My strides are firm and confident when I have people like you,Rocky,Ena, Stephen and Black walking alongside me in our journey with Mr & Mrs RPK.
Kehoe,I'm not at liberty to say who right now but it will come out soon enough.
Hamizi, apparently they just took that list off Rocky's blogroll (which is why even people like Kak Teh is on it!). Am happy to be in such good company though ;-)
If the citizen could unite just for the sole purpose of seeking for freedom of speech and blogging is a symbol for that struggle, we have a way forward. THis is where we can find a unity in purpose.
As far as the differences in ideology or philosophy, realpolitik will sort it out and the practical and simple approach will prevail.
I missed being with all of you, Dato. Had a pain in the neck.
ditto, had a class, couldn't show support in person; bravo to all u guys who did.
Election is definitely very very near...not only have they started re-paving the roads (imagine, the internal roads just below Bukit Gasing, SS5, were also re-tarred), they're cleaning up the "pesky" flies swarming around their piles of shit!!! Well, too bad that flies are always a step ahead of them.
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