Popular Malaysian blogger charged with sedition

A Malaysian blogger was charged Tuesday with sedition over an article he wrote linking a top government leader and his wife to the gruesome killing of a Mongolian woman.

Raja Petra Kamaruddin, founder and editor of the popular Malaysia Today site, had posted an article which allegedly implicated Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, in the October 2006 murder.

The 57-year-old Raja Petra pleaded not guilty after the charge was read out to him over the article, which prosecutors say contained "sentences deemed seditious."

"We bloggers have declared war on the government. Our final objective is to change the government," Raja Petra declared before he was charged.

Supporters, including opposition lawmakers and other bloggers, thronged the court in a show of support.

Represented by seven lawyers, a defiant Raja Petra declined to ...