Kuala Lumpur: A prominent Malaysian blogger has been charged with sedition for allegedly implying that the deputy Prime Minister was involved in the killing of a young Mongolian woman.
Dozens of opposition members and other bloggers gathered at court in support of Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin who was charged today.
Sedition is punishable by up to three years in jail.
Raja Petra's supporters called the government's move a blow to freedom of speech.
Raja Petra is in trouble because of an April 25 article he wrote for his website Malaysia Today.
It implied that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansoor were involved in the 2006 murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, a 28-year-old Mongolian interpreter.
