Monday January 29, 2007
Blogger, NSTP to refrain from publishing content that may prejudice trial
KUALA LUMPUR: Blogger Ahirudin Attan and New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd have agreed not to publish any articles or comment on matters that may be subjudice or prejudicial to the libel suit between the two parties.
Lawyers for Ahirudin and NSTP issued a joint statement before High Court Judge Mohamad Hishamuddin Yunus during a brief hearing in his chambers.
The statement said both parties agreed to "henceforth not publish any articles, comments or posts regarding the dispute presently before the High Court'' that may prejudice a fair trial.
Ahirudin's counsel Edmund Bon said his client voluntarily removed about 400 comments received from readers because some may be construed as "borderline subjudice.''
The comments were in response to four entries posted after the lawsuit announcement.
"It is in no way an admission that any of the content was subjudice,'' Bon told The Associated Press.
"There was no way to remove only selected comments, so we had no alternative but to put it all off-line ... We do this to err on the side of caution, to let the judicial process take its due course.''
The lawsuits by the English-language newspaper were the first against Malaysian bloggers for publishing comments on the Internet.
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