Raja Petra Kamarudin
Malaysian blogger (1950–2024)
Raja Petra bin Raja Kamarudin (Jawi: راج ڤيترا بن راج كامرودين; 27 September 1950 – 9 September 2024), sometimes referred to by the initials RPK, was a Malaysian blogger and politician known for running the Malaysia Today website and publishing a series of controversial commentaries and articles on Malaysian politics in the website.
Kamarudin was detained for a second time under the Internal Security Act, at 1.10pm on 12 September 2008. On 7 November 2008, Raja Petra, 58, was freed from detention after Shah Alam city High Court Justice Syed Ahmad Helmy Syed Ahmad granted his habeas corpus petition and ruled that his detention was illegal. The court noted that "the grounds for the detention order by Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar for the blogger did not fall under the scope of Section 8(1) of the ISA."
In May 2010, Cheras UMNO Division chairman, Syed Ali Alhabshee called on the government to strip Raja Petra of his citizenship on the grounds that his activities could affect the peace of the country. He resided in Manchester, England.
Early life and education
Raja Petra was born in Surrey, England on 27 September 1950, Raja Petra was a member of the House of Opu Daeng Chelak. He was the nephew of the late Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, the eleventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia and the seventh Sultan of Selangor. His paternal grandmother Tengku Badariah was the elder sister of Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, the second Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the eighth Sultan of Selangor. His paternal grandfather, Raja Tun Uda Al-Haj Bin Raja Muhammad, KBE (1894–1976), was twice Menteri Besar of Selangor during the colonial era, the second speaker of the Federal Legislative Council (1955–1957), the first Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Penang (1957–1967) and the first Malaysian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1953–1955). His father, Raja Kamarudin bin Raja Tun Uda (1924–1970), studied law in the UK and worked for Unilever until his death whilst his mother, Che' Bariya Kamarudin (née Barbara Mabel Parnell) (1932–1978), was Welsh.
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