For the Asian category, blogger Jeff Ooi won the Reporters sans frontiers’ Freedom Blog award. RSF gives the reason why Jeff Ooi was short listed:

An extremely popular blog that takes an independent approach to Malaysian politics and society. Its editor, Jeff Ooi, was threatened with imprisonment, at the beginning of October 2004, because he allowed on his blog a comment “insulting Islam”.

As I noted here, Jeff Ooi hardly allowed “Anwar”, that infamous commenter, to comment on his blog. He even said here:

In the interview, I plug for blogs and bloggers, but I also emphasise that the privilege of freedom of expression comes with a strong sense of responsibility, all the time. [emphasis mine]

I’ll leave it to you to interpret that.