{"id":9833,"date":"2011-08-02T02:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T02:08:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-08-02T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T02:08:08","slug":"Facebook-linked-to-man-s-murder-in-Malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9833","title":{"rendered":"Facebook linked to man&#8217;s murder in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Malaysian police said they have detained two people on suspicion of bludgeoning a man to death after he reportedly posted negative remarks about a girl he had &#8220;friended&#8221; on Facebook.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twenty-year-old Mohamad Amran Romli died in a hospital Friday shortly as a result of severe head injuries from an attack by two men believed to be brothers of the girl, the Malay language daily Berita Harian said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two men beat Amran with motorcycle crash helmets during the attack in an alley behind a supermarket in Kulim town in Kedah state, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Local police chief Ghuzlan Saleh was quoted as saying that Amran had befriended the girl through <strong>Facebook, which is extremely popular in Malaysia along with other social networking and microblogging sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, their online relationship eventually &#8220;turned sour&#8221; and the victim allegedly posted disparaging comments about the girl and her family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She then complained to her brothers who sought to resolve the dispute with Amran. 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