An Evening with Art Harun & Raja Petra Kamarudin

7.00pm, Tuesday, 31st May 2011 (with dinner)

Holiday Villa Hotel
37 Leinster Gardens
London W2 3AN

Art Harun, Malaysian lawyer and blogger, “believes that he is a failed government experiment, abandoned and left alone to roam the streets after all remedial efforts yielded no positive results. He calls himself a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), practices law for a living and tries very hard to play the guitar, sing, race cars and writes the occasional column for The Malaysian Insider to stay alive”.
 
Really, Art gives himself too little credit. As a defender of free speech and a fierce critic of the abuse of the ‘Special Position’ accorded by Article 153, Art Harun is indeed very respectable failure.

Incidentally, Art was in the team of lawyers who made Malaysian legal history by successfully ‘breaking out’ Raja Petra Kamarudin from the Kamunting Detention Centre.

Raja Petra should need no introduction – recently returned to the UK after he almost walked into the Malaysian Embassy one evening in Bangkok – had he not been refrained by wife Marina and two lawyer friends. 

It has been a year since RPK emerged in London for a public speaking engagement. With yet another lawyer present, will this be another night of drama with the Authorities? Let’s hope not – dinner beckons at 7.00pm.

£15 per person; pay at the door.