Controversial Malaysian blogger and Anwar critic Raja Petra dies in ...
Controversial Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin, who was an erstwhile ally of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, passed away at 73 in the UK, where he had been living in self-imposed exile to avoid arrest.
A spearhead of the “Free Anwar Campaign”, Raja Petra was an early frontman of Anwar’s “Reformasi” movement following his abrupt fall from power in 1998 and his subsequent incarceration for sodomy, which was rubbished as politically driven.
However, in recent years, the blogger who left Malaysia to avoid criminal charges became a harsh Anwar critic through his website Malaysia Today, which publishes alleged insider information detrimental to the now prime minister.
The news of Raja Petra’s passing was confirmed by his wife, Marina Lee Abdullah, on Tuesday morning on her husband’s website following reports of his death in the Malaysian press.
“It is with great sadness that I am informing you that my beloved husband, Raja Petra Kamarudin has just passed away at 11.26pm UK time on Monday 9th Sept 2024 in Manchester, UK,” Marina wrote.
