Raja Kamaruddin

Blogger, Raja Petra Kamruddin has missed his sedition trial and has gone into hiding.  We have written before about the sedition charges facing Raja and he failed to appear in court to answer to the charges which stem from an article he wrote implication Malaysia’s Prime Minister in the murder of a Mongolian woman.

Raja has had various run-ins with the authorities in Malaysia due to his critical stance which has led to his websites and blogs being shut down and him being arrested and jailed.  On Thusrday he wrote on his site that he feared being arrested on a law that allows for indefinite detention for people who threaten national security, he had been arrested on the same last year and said that he would go on ’self exile’

His failure to attend court has led to a new a warrant to be issued against him.  His wife who had posted bail for him was also missing from court.  Raja wrote that he would be attending court because he knew that he would be re-arrested and held indefinitely.

We wish Raja all the best and ask the Malaysia authorities to put an end to this.