MCMC arrests engineer over Facebook comments about Najib

To be tried: Facebook, based in Palo Alto, California, had appealed against a Paris High Court's authority to hear the case but the appeal court said Facebook's claim was inadmissible. — Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission has arrested an engineer who allegedly uploaded offensive and insulting comments about Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on the Facebook account of a news portal recently.

MCMC, in a statement on its Facebook account Wednesday, said the 26-year-old individual was picked up in an operation conducted by MCMC with the Commercial Crime Investigation Division of the Putrajaya Police headquarters.