Shafee’s suit against RPK on May 25

The High Court will hear on May 25 lawyer Datuk Muhammad Shafee Abdullah's application for several injunctions against blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin.

The date was fixed by deputy registrar Nazri Ismail after the case was mentioned before him today. The inter-parte hearing will be before High Court judge Datuk Aziah Ali. Nazri also fixed April 1 for case management of the main suit.

Muhammad Shafee, represented by counsel S. Ravindran, is suing Raja Petra for posting three articles on Aug 6, 7 and 11, entitled “Shafee Abdullah: Sodomologist Extraordinaire”, “Money, Power and Sex: What Motivates Man” and “The Real Dalang Behind The Anwar Sodomy Allegation” on the Malaysia Today website, which he said were defamatory of him.

On Aug 13, 2008, he obtained ex-parte injunctions ordering Raja Petra to remove the articles as well as all comments on the articles from the website, and reveal the identities of visitors to the website who had left comments and messages following the publication of the articles, among others. — Bernama