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.