PETALING JAYA, Nov 14 – After a string of controversial posts, blogger Alvin Tan, 26, Facebook page has been “permanently banned” by Facebook, just a day after he allegedly insulted Muslims by showing a series of pictures where he used a page of the Quran as toilet paper.
“My VERIFIED BADGE Facebook Page has been permanently banned,” he said on his page, slamming those who had reported his page to Facebook. On Friday, Bernama also reported that five police reports were being lodged against Tan in Johor when he had posted photographs of himself using a page from the Quran as toilet paper on his Facebook.
It was reported that police had also received reports on public unhappiness over Tan’s provocative action that was spread on social media showing him using the Quran as toilet paper. Tan is in Los Angeles, California, after fleeing the country more than a year ago in a move to seek political asylum in the United States after jumping bail in Malaysia.
Tan and his former partner Vivian Lee, 25, claimed trial last year to three charges under the Film Censorship Act, Sedition Act and the Penal Code. Both still face two charges under the Film Censorship Act and Sedition Act for a “Ramadan greeting” that was posted on their blog last year.
In the meantime, the Immigration Department had also been revoked Tan’s Malaysian passport on last December which the Immigration Department of the director-general Datuk Mustafa Ibrahim also saying that such the individuals would not be “tolerated”.
