Swiss activist detained

Swiss activist detained

KUCHING, Malaysia (AP): A Swiss activist who lived for years
with one of the "lost tribes of Borneo" and who is banned from
Malaysia for his battle against the logging that has depleted
their rain forest habitat, was detained on Monday.

Bruno Manser, who spent six years with the nomadic Penans of
Sarawak in the 1980s, was grabbed by immigration officials after
flying a motorized paraglider over the capital of this Malaysian
state on northern Borneo island.

Manser, 45, has written a book and made several documentaries
about the Penans, of whom only 260 remain in the rain forest
living off the land.

He has been banned from Malaysia for his outspoken and often
outrageous efforts to obtain territorial land rights for the
Penans.