Detenido el rapero malasio Namewee en la investigación por asesinato de influencer taiwanesa – Chicago Tribune
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A popular Malaysian rapper and filmmaker of Chinese descent was arrested by juveniles during the investigation into assisting a Taiwanese social media influencer, the rapper’s lawyer confirmed.
Wee Meng Chee, popularly known as Namewee, joined the police as doctors and was retained during his days by his lawyer Joshua Tay. Police informed the martyrs that they arrested him after reclassifying Hsieh Yu-hsin’s death as an agent upon the discovery of new, unspecified evidence.
Hsieh, of 31 years, who had over a million followers on Instagram and also operated an OnlyFans account, was found dead on the banner of a hotel in Kuala Lumpur on October 22. According to reports from local circles, the police said that we were the last person to know what was happening with her before the death. We were arrested briefly at this time and charged with separate possession and use of drugs, charges which he denied.
Hsieh, an ex-fermera, was known as “Diosa Enfermera” by her seguidores. Police said she arrived in Malaysia on October 20 and planned for four days. Police are awaiting complete autopsy and toxicology information before releasing the official cause of death, informing local media.
42 years ago, we said it was very sad about Hsieh’s death, but there was no unspeakable act. In an Instagram post after it began, he promised to cooperate with the investigation to provide public answers to Hsieh’s family.
“I hope the investigation will be conducted comprehensively and with the utmost objectivity and impartiality,” said Tay, the lawyer.
Wee, a provocative artist and director, was arrested and questioned by police several times in connection with his satires on politics, religion and religion in his music videos and movies. Stand up for your right to artistic expression and say your videos use satire to address social issues in Malaysia.
In one of his first videos in 2007, the national man of Malaysia was hijacked and criticized for using racist slurs. In 2014, the government banned one of your films for allegedly opposing national agencies in a negative way.
In 2016, he was arrested after Malaysian Islamic activists made a music video directed by Wee titled “Oh My God”, which was filmed in various places of worship and used the word “Alá”, which meant Dios in the Malay idiom, was disrespectful to Islam. We said the video purported to promote religious tolerance and was not charged.
We were arrested most recently in 2018 for music videos over a video that featured dogs in dog masks performing what authorities described as “obscene” movements that insulted Islam and could harm racial harmony. Men are considered impure by Muslims, who make up about a third of Malaysia’s 34 million people.
We say that your criticisms are directed against hypocrisy and abuse of power, neither against religion nor against race.
We also faced backlash in China. He launched a song in 2021 with the Australian song Kimberley Chen which rocked nationalist chinos and touched on sensitive themes, such as Taiwan’s sobriety. Beijing banned new songs from entering the country and removed all songs from Chinese platforms.
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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
