Ex-top editor, ISA detainee Said Zahari dies


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 12 Apr 2016

Said Zahari

PETALING JAYA: Said Zahari, a one-time editor-in-chief of the Malay-language newspaper Utusan Melayu and former political detainee of 17 years under Lee Kuan Yew’s rule, has passed away at 88.

His eldest son Roesman Mohd Said told The Star that this former journalist, who was involved in anti-colonialism movement in the 1950s and 1960s, died in his sleep at around 12 noon on Tuesday.

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