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Wife: RPK refusing to meet anyone
Wife: RPK refusing to meet anyone
Syed Jaymal Zahiid | May 7, 08 11:32am
Malaysia Today webmaster Raja Petra Kamaruddin - presently in jail for refusing to pay bail - has refused to have any contact with anyone including his own wife, Marina Lee Abdullah.
Marina when contacted this morning said she had gone to the Kuala Lumpur Remand Centre to meet Raja Petra and to ask him if he would want to post bail today.
“The officer at the registration counter (of the remand centre) have informed me that my husband has refused to see anyone including me,” she told Malaysiakini.
Marina added she was informed by the police that Raja Petra is apparently on hunger strike.
“The police told me that he refused to eat,” lamented Marina.She said that she has demanded to see the deputy warden of the remand centre to get further information and is still waiting for the meeting.
Raja Petra was charged yesterday with sedition at the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court over an article which he wrote in his website.
The article allegedly implied that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife of being involved in the killing of a young Mongolian woman.
Raja Petra claimed trial to the charge. He was charged under Section 4(1)(c) of the Sedition Act for publishing seditious article on April 25 on Malaysia Today.
Hearing has been fixed from Oct 6 to 10 and Raja Petra was granted a bail of RM5,000, which he refused to post, deciding instead to remain in custody until the hearing date five months from today.
