KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 — Police have summoned DAP's Syefura Othman for questioning tomorrow in a sedition investigation over allegedly offensive remarks she had issued against a Sultan.
The young DAP member popularly known as "Rara" 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 had landed her in trouble, 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.
"I was not home at the time. The police came and spoke to my brother. They did not say for what I was being investigated for, but said it was an offence related to the Sedition Act," she said when contacted.
The police were from the Saujana police station and claimed they were under orders from Kuala Lumpur’s Dang Wangi district police headquarters to pick her up for investigation, she added.
