KOTA KINABALU, Oct 19 — Sabah secession advocate Doris Jones has managed to obtain a British passport after Putrajaya refused to renew her Malaysian travel document.
The Sabah-born Jones said on her Facebook page that she obtained her new passport without incident and was granted the British travel document due to her permanent residency in the United Kingdom for almost 20 years.
“I have settled my passport issue in the United Kingdom without any obstruction because I have been a Permanent Resident of the United Kingdom for almost 20 years,” Jones wrote on Facebook in Malay last night.
“It was not my intention to change my Malaysian passport to the United Kingdom International passport, but it’s the fault of the Malaysian government themselves for preventing a Sabahan from staying in Malaysia,” she added.
Jones, who has a warrant of arrest out for her in Malaysia for sedition, was reportedly refused renewal of her Malaysian passport last September 30 at the Malaysian High Commission in London.
She was later offered an alternative travel document to Putrajaya, but only for a single trip and specifically to the Malaysian administrative capital.
Jones, 45, is behind a Facebook group that actively promotes discourse on the secession of Sabah and Sarawak from Malaysia, a topic considered seditious under Malaysian law.
