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Raja Petra ordered to reveal source and reader IDs |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 11:30pm |
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©The
Star (Used by permission)
by Cecil Fung
KUALA LUMPUR: A High Court here has ordered Malaysia Today editor Raja
Petra Kamarudin to reveal his sources for the allegations he made against lawyer
Datuk Muhammad Shafee Abdullah in three online articles.
In addition, the wide-ranging order compels him to, within three days of its
service to him, reveal the identities of visitors to his web portal who had left
comments and messages following the articles.
In the three articles dated Aug 6, Aug 7 and Aug 11, Raja Petra had accused
Shafee of masterminding the recent sodomy charge against PKR de facto leader
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
The order, granted by Justice Tee Ah Sing in chambers, also included several
injunctions, the first of which directs Raja Petra to remove the defamatory
articles from the web portal within two days as well as to remove any other
follow up articles and comments posted by visitors.
Injunctions were also granted to restrain him or his agents from further
publishing the said articles or any other articles, journals, letters, comments,
posts and statements that are defamatory of Shafee on the web portal or any
third party websites.
The order was the result of an ex parte summons in chambers filed by the
lawyer, who had earlier Wednesday filed a defamation suit against the blogger
over the same articles.
The court fixed Sept 2 to hear the inter partes application.
When contacted, Shafee said the order granted by the High Court was against "a
blog owner who continuously, maliciously and contumeliously went on a rampage to
defame me."
"I have not seen anything more defamatory than what this man has written. None
of what he said is true," he said.
Shafee also challenged Raja Petra to enter appearance in this case and dared him
to prove the truth of the contents of all three articles.
As at press time, the three articles were still available on the Malaysia
Today portal.
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