Raja Petra Kamaruddin, the editor of news portal Malaysia Today, is expected to be charged with sedition at the magistrates’ court in the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex in Jalan Duta today.
He is expected to appear in court at 9.30am.
Raja Petra was investigated under section 4 (1) of the Sedition Act 1948 for the article “Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell.”The article was posted on his website on April 25 and implicated Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.
Another blogger, Syed Ali Akbar, was also summoned to court and is expected to be charged under the same Act.
He allegedly posted an article on Arabs and Islam on his blog .
Raja Petra’s wife, Marina Lee Abdullah, said the police officer who called them did not state what Raja Petra would be charged with.
“The police officer told us to just appear in court and we would be informed then,” she said.
Marina said once they know what the charges are, they would post bail.
To raise bail, they will involve the people. They will put up their bank account number on the website and encourage Netizens to bank in RM1 each.
On Friday, Raja Petra was summoned to the Federal Commercial Crimes Investigations Department (CCID) in Bukit Perdana at 4pm and was allowed to leave two hours later.
Eight police officers from the CCID visited his house in Sungai Buloh at 9am and seized a laptop and a CPU belonging to him before leaving at 11am.
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