According to Rocky’s Bru, a former Malaysian presidential candidate for the Umno party, Mohd Shukri Jamaluddin, known to fellow bloggers Cucumatkilau, was arrested and his house searched by police in Kuantan this last Sunday, December 23. Several cell phones and a laptop were confiscated. He was released 10 hours after being arrested.

Jamuluddin said the police did not provide a warrant nor announce the laws he had been apprehended for allegedly breaking, though he called it the beginning of a crackdown on bloggers.

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Update: The Star reports that Jamuluddin has lodged a formal complaint of wrongful detention against the Kuantan police.