Press Release by R Sivarasa & N Surendran

PRESS RELEASE:

11 NOVEMBER 2011

PRESS RELEASE: Drop new politically motivated investigation against Anwar Ibrahim 

 

We are disturbed and appalled that the police have commenced a new criminal investigation against opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The federal opposition leader has been ordered to report for police interrogation at the Kepong police station for an investigation under s.182 of the Penal Code. This is a new and desperate attempt to prosecute and imprison Anwar Ibrahim, halt the movement for national political and economic reform and prevent Pakatan Rakyat from winning federal power in the coming general elections. Instead of engaging in legitimate political debate and discourse with the opposition, UMNO/BN is once again unlawfully using the police to fabricate criminal charges against Anwar Ibrahim. In previous unsuccesful attempts to silence Anwar Ibrahim in 1998 and 2008, UMNO/BN had also fabricated baseless criminal charges against Anwar Ibrahim with the complicity of the top police leadership and the Attorney General's chambers. In this regard, we have no confidence that Attorney General Gani Patail will exercise his powers fairly and impartially; serious allegations of fabrication of evidence by the AG against Anwar Ibrahim in 1998 made by former top cop Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim remain unanswered. This political persecution of the national opposition leader by the corrupt use of law enforcement agencies is doing immense damage to Malaysia's international reputation; UMNO/BN is bringing our country down to the level of Assad's Syria or Egypt under Mubarak. We call upon the BN government, the Inspector General of Police and the Attorney General to immediately drop this latest politically-motivated investigation and cease all police and prosecutorial harassment and intimidation of the the opposition leader.

 

Issued by,

N SURENDRAN

VICE PRESIDENT

KEADILAN

 

SIVARASA RASIAH

MEMBER OF POLITICAL BUREAU,KEADILAN

MP FOR SUBANG