MCMC raids Malaysiakini's office

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) conducted a raid on news portal Malaysiakini's office here yesterday.
This comes just days after some 200 Red Shirt members protested outside its office.
The six-man MCMC team confiscated two computers.
According to Malaysiakini, the raid was due to two video clips it had uploaded in July on its website of a press conference by former Umno politician Datuk Khairuddin Abu Hassan that was critical of Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali.
The MCMC had previously ordered the portal to take down the two videos two months ago but it refused to do so.
They are being investigated under Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia act for alleged improper use of network facilities.
“We believe that there is nothing wrong with the rest of the content of both videos and removing them will impinge on our duty as journalists in reporting issues of public interest,” Malaysiakini’s editor-in-chief Steven Gan was quoted saying in an account of the raid.
The MCMC team had produced a search warrant and spent some four hours in the portal's office.