Sex-blogger Alvin’s bail revoked
By HIDIR REDUAN | New Straits Times – 11 hours ago
KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court today revoked sex-blogger Alvin Tan
Jye Yee's RM20,000 bail after he failed twice to return his passport.
Judge Abdul Rashid Daud made the order after ruling that the
explanations by Tan's two bailors on their failure to ensure Tan abide
by bail conditions were not satisfactory.
Tan's bailors Loo Ching Ching and All Kim Lian, who is also his
mother, were ordered to show cause today why the bail should not be
revoked.
Tan and his girlfriend Vivian Lee May Ling had their passports
temporarily returned on May 12 so the couple could go to Singapore to
film a documentary about their life.
Sessions Court judge Rashid had issued an arrest warrant against Tan
on June 13 when he failed to turn up for that day's mention to return
his passport.
Tan also failed to turn up for mention on July 18.
Tan, 26, and Lee, 25, were charged on July 18 last year with:
UPLOADING a picture of them eating "bak kut teh" (a pork soup dish)
with the caption "Selamat Berbuka Puasa with bak kut teh", which was
likely to stir inter-faith conflict, at a restaurant in Dang Wangi on
July 11 and 12 last year;
PUBLISHING inciting content, namely the same picture and caption, on
their Facebook account;
POSTING pornographic pictures on their now-defunct sex blog between
July 6 and 7 last year at the same place.
The Court of Appeal on April 21 allowed the bloggers' application to
strike out the second charge involving stirring of hostility between
religions.
