Barisan bloggers frame Hanief in sedition arrest

ARCHIVES 2011

By admin-s On Mar 21, 2011

By uppercaise

• FACT: Hanief himself did not write anything about the sultan and Kavita
• FACT: Other sites wrote about the sultan and Kavita in December and January
• FACT: The story was related to the appointment of state secretary Mohd Khrusrin
• FACT: Hanief only mentioned the allegations and linked to the original postings
• FACT: Barisan Nasional bloggers demanded that Hanief be arrested
• FACT: There are 7,000 web site mentions of the sultan and Kavita
• FACT: The media also pinned the allegations on Hanief. They were wrong.

Google Search: 6,940 results for the term “sultan selangor kavita kaur”
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Barisan Nasional blogs finger Hanief

The demand for Hanief’s arrest came from Barisan Nasional bloggers early this month, after he had posted his article. Screaming headlines on many Barisan Nasional-friendly blogs accused him of insulting the sultan.

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SULTAN SELANGOR DI HINA LAGI, TANGKAP BLOGGER INI…
March 1: The screaming headline at KitaGempur.com

Menteri KDN Tangkap Blogger Nie!!M
March 2: the demand from Selamatkan Rakyat Selangor.com

“Sekali lagi institusi diraja selangor di hina oleh pakatan haram, selepas mereka tidak puas hati dengan pelantikan kusrin sebagai setiausaha kerajaan negeri oleh sultan selangor, kini pakatan rakyat anjing-anjing mereka untuk sekali lagi menyerang sultan selangor.”

But the original postings was in December and January, and not by Hanief

What did Hanief himself actually say in his blog?

A headline “Skandal Seks Sultan Selangor Dengan Kavita Kaur ?”
A spoof photograph of Mahathir Mohamad and Kavita Kaur with the satirical caption “Sultan baru?”
A quotation from Dian’s original posting
A link to Dian’s posting as carried at Bonology
A photograph of Kavita Kaur at a royal function, linked to the original report in The Star
A clip and link from a personal blog about high society

All that was from other people’s articles. His own words were:

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Hanief: Apa kata rakyat? Selama ini ada kerabat istana minum arak, bergaduh di disko dan kelab elit serta kes Manohara. Saya dahagakan satu Republik Malaysia, jika kuasa istana yang telah dikurangkan Mahathir ini, makin dicemari dengan kelakuan sumbang mereka sendiri. Paling tidak, kita boleh pulangkan semula semua duit istana kepada rakyat untuk bikin pendidikan percuma buat rakyat jelata.

It began with politics: the Khusrin appointment

The rumours about the Sultan of Selangor and his personal relationship with celebrity model Kavita Kaur have been circulating on the Internet for months, since December.

It surfaced at the time of the controversy over the federal government’s appointment of Mohd Khusrin Munawi as Selangor’s state secretary, over the objections of the Selangor mentri besar who insisted that this was in contravention of his constitutional authority.