Rome Statute forum probed under Sedition Act, says IGP

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 29 Apr 2019 1:02PM · 6 Comments

Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun says several individuals involved in the forum as well as its organisers will be called to have their statements recorded. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 29, 2019.

POLICE investigations into a recent forum on the Rome Statute are being conducted under the Sedition Act, Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said.

The forum, where Attorney-General Tommy Thomas was a speaker, is being probed following several reports lodged with police, Fuzi was quoted by media as saying at the new Brickfields police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.

He declined to state the number of police reports lodged.

Several individuals involved in the forum as well as its organisers will be called to have their statements recorded, the outgoing IGP said, but did not name them.

Besides Thomas, former academic and former PKR deputy president Syed Husin Ali was also one of the panellists at the forum that had been critical over the interference of certain members of royalty in Putrajaya’s attempts to accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The government eventually U-turned on Malaysia’s accession to the treaty.

Other panellists at the forum on Saturday included UM constitutional law expert Emeritus Professor Shad Saleem Faruqi, former ambassador and G25 group of Muslim moderates Noor Farida Ariffin, former student activist Asheeq Ali Sethi Alavi and lawyer Lim Wei Jiat.

The forum had discussed a leaked presentation by four academics to the Malay rulers on the Rome Statute which allegedly influenced the rulers to reject the treaty.

One of those who had filed a police report against the forum, and had named Syed Husin in particular, was Pertubuhan Sahabat Erat dan Amanat Rakyat president Nazrin Norani, who said the ex-PKR man had stirred hatred against the Malay rulers. – April 29, 2019.

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  • IGP, have you forgotten so quickly that we want free speech?

    Posted 5 years ago by Awang Bilis · Reply

  • bila mau pencen ar?

    Posted 5 years ago by The Lone Ranger ... · Reply

  • Bloody nonsense by the useless and incompetent out-going IGP

    Posted 5 years ago by Rupert Lum · Reply

  • Do not leave behind any bad names after you pencen, Sir.

    Posted 5 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • When is the new IGP going to probe Fuzi for Amri and Koh's enforced disappearance?

    Posted 5 years ago by Roger 5201 · Reply

  • This conversation would have been unnecessary had Pakatan ratified Rome Statute and abolished the Sedition Act.

    Posted 5 years ago by Roger 5201 · Reply