Politics Malaysiakini.com Raided by Police: on online press freedom

Police raided the offices of Malaysian news website Malaysiakini.com yesterday (January 20), seizing 19 computers and resulting in the site being temporarily shut down. Police were seeking the name of an anonymous letter writer who had posted a comment on the site comparing the ruling United Malays National, the party of both the prime minister and president, to the Ku Klux Klan.