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...week after he was arrested for possessing secret documents that reportedly revealed corruption in the Malaysian government, Nathaniel J. Tan ’03-’04 said on his blog Thursday that “absolutely nothing even remotely resembling proof" existed to justify his arrest...
...Tan, arrested on the afternoon of July 13 by Malaysian police, was released last Tuesday after four days of detention under accusations of violating the Official Secrets Act, according to news reports. The act prohibits the distribution, possession, or collection of any information dubbed as an official secret by any public officer, according to Malaysia Today, a prominent news blog in the country. The act is punishable by up to seven years in prison...
Police reportedly arrested Tan, 27, in connection with a comment made on one of his blog posts in February. The anonymous comment suggested that Malaysian Deputy Internal Security Minister Johari Baharom, the subject of a now-closed investigation into accusations of corruption, bribed officials into dropping the inquiry. Tan says he had nothing to do with the comment...
...Tan criticized the police's handling of his arrest on his blog, suggesting that officers violated standards of due process...
...Tan is the secretary for the Foundation For the Future, a Beirut-based grant-making organization which strives to support democracy in the Middle East...