SUBANG JAYA, Aug 13 — Police would not be investigating DAP member Syefura Othman for sedition if she did not act in breach of the law, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar asserted today.
The IGP said that police officers do not simply summon individuals for questioning under the Sedition Act unless they had uttered seditious remarks.
“She must have commented, said something seditious. We don’t simply call up people.
“If we call up someone, he or she must have said something (seditious),” he told reporters at a news conference when asked to comment on Syefura being called for questioning tomorrow.
“Get ready to be called,” Khalid said to the young DAP member popularly known as “Rara”.
It is understood that she is being questioned as part of a sedition investigation over allegedly offensive remarks she had issued against a Sultan.
Syefura told Malay Mail Online this morning that she was informed via text message to be present at the Dang Wangi district police headquarters at 10am tomorrow to record her statement.
According to the text message sighted by Malay Mail Online, Syefura is being investigated under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948.
When asked to explain which of her remarks were illegal, the police assistant superintendent who summoned Syefura told the politician that several police reports have been lodged against her.
“Police reports lodged against many issues, but one of it is on a post insulting the Sultan,” ASP Ahmad Khairuddin Alias said, before assuring Syefura that she was only being summoned to have her statement recorded and would not be detained.
Syefura told Malay Mail Online that she believes the post referred to could be from last year over the case of activist Ali Abd Jalil who was slapped with three sedition charges for insulting the Selangor Sultan and the Johor royal house, as well as for undermining the royal institution.
Last night, a group of policemen paid a surprise visit to Syefura’s house in search of the DAP member. -The Malay Mail Online
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