The revision of the four-day remand order against PKR webmaster Nathaniel Tan has been postponed until Aug 13 at the Kuala Lumpur High Court today.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Sarala Pillai said the prosecution needed two weeks to respond to the affidavits filed by Tan's lawyers on Monday. Presiding judge is Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah.

Tan was released by the police yesterday after the remand order expired, but lawyers said they would pursue the revision as the arrest and remand procedures were deemed "questionable" and were matters of public interest.

"There must be valid and concrete reasons to curtail the liberty of any person who is protected under Article 5 of the Federal Constitution.

"In Tan's case, how he was arrested, and his lawyers mislead to a certain extent, creates more questions and is highly dubious," said lawyer Amer Hamzah Arshad.

Police procedures questioned

Tan, who is known as Nat, was picked up from a non-governmental organisation's (NGO) office by three plainclothes police personnel on Friday. He was then taken to the Commercial Crimes Investigation Department (CCID) 'questioning'. Two of his computers were also seized.

Following this, his lawyers and parents spent several hours scouring several police stations and even the Bukit Aman police headquarters for him.

Tan was brought for remand proceedings on Saturday but his lawyers claimed that the police never informed them of this.

After he was released yesterday, Tan said he was not informed why he was held until he was brought for remand proceedings. He was investigated for allegedly breaching the Official Secrets Act 1972.

During his detention, he was investigated by the police Cyber Crimes Division in connection with an anonymous comment left on his blog.

The comment relates to an anonymous website which implicated Deputy Internal Security Minister Johari Baharom of corruption.

Johari has been cleared of the allegations but has ordered the CCID to crack down on those who spread "lies" about the country's leaders on the Internet.