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Malaysia: We Are Not Liars

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 @ 06:48 UTC

by Preetam Rai

Countries:: Malaysia
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Governance

Lucia Lai takes offence at her prime minister using the term “lairs” to describe bloggers who write negative posts about his leadership. “anyway, what is a lie? how do you define a lie? how can you tell that we lied? what made you think we lied? when we write something not to your liking? when we unearth some ’secrets’ you are hiding?”

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