Legal lion offers to defend website
Apr 20, 07 6:21pm
Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud’s legal ultimatum to malaysiakini has drawn a roar of protest from DAP.
The opposition party also revealed that its lawyers, including 'legal lion' and national chairperson Karpal Singh, have offered their services. In a statement today, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng explained that the party was committed to defending press freedom.
“I spoke to DAP lawyers, including national chair and renowned legal lion Karpal, who have agreed with the commitment to offer our legal services to malaysiakini to fight this lawsuit.
“Public interest requires that this mother of all court battles must be won to preserve what is left of freedom of information for Malaysia in cyberspace,” he said.
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Sarawak CM to sue Malaysiakini
Apr 20, 07 1:56pm
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Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud has demanded malaysiakini to remove several articles concerning accusations of corruption allegedly linked to him and his family.
Taib, who has been the Sarawak leader for 26 years, said he would take legal action should malaysiakini refuses to do so in 48 hours.
In the letter which was hand-delivered late yesterday to the malaysiakini office in Kuala Lumpur’s Bangsar Utama, Taib identified eight articles which he claimed were defamatory.
These articles - published between April 6 and 14 - alleged that Taib has been implicated in a scandal involving RM32 million in kickbacks paid by Japanese shipping companies for timber from the resource-rich state.
The eight articles cited by Taib were follow ups to the Japan Times news report on March 29 entitled ‘Wood carriers allegedly hid 1.1 billion yen income’.
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