Zunar, Lawyer Testify In Suit Against Malaysian Officials

There's a compelling wire story up here about the testimony of the Malaysian cartoonist Zunar and that of his lawyer Latheefa Koya in the artist's civil suit against various government officials for an arrest, business disruption and confiscations made in September 2010 on the eve of a book launch collecting Zunar's cartoons. If I have the timeline down correctly, they're disputing a claim made in previous testimony that Zunar had been informed of the arrival of officials at his office on the evening in question. They also advance their general claims of abuse of police authority and that Zunar's work should be seen as political commentary rather than potentially seditious activity.

You can learn about Zunar's case in the context of a wide range of media and rights abuses in Malaysia here.
 
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