SARAWAK immigration officers cut short PKR’s Kuala Sepetang assemblyman Chua Yee Ling’s speech at the Pink Diamond fundraising dinner in Miri last night, picked her up and deported her on the last flight out.

Chua is the third lawmaker from Peninsular Malaysia to be stopped from entering or staying in Sarawak today.

Her deportation capped a day when PKR’s vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar cancelled her plan to fly to Sarawak after two of their MPs, Zuraida Kamaruddin (Ampang) and Hee Loy Sian (Petaling Jaya Selatan) were denied entry when they landed in Miri at 2pm today.

Nurul, who is Lembah Pantai MP, was expected to arrive in Miri around 7pm tonight but she did not take her flight as she was advised against it, PKR Sarawak chief Baru Bian told The Malaysian Insight.

“She knew she won’t be allowed in,” Baru said.

Chua had flown with Zuraida and Hee but she was allowed in while they were stopped at the airport.

Immigration officers however came for her at around 8.30pm at the Miri Eastwood Golf and Country Club.

“She was speaking at the dinner when the officers came,” Sarawak PKR deputy youth chief Simon Siah said.

Siah said they tried to stop her speech but PH Sarawak lawmakers including Chong Chieng Jen, Baru Bian and See Chee How, went on stage to delay the arrest until after Chong had finished his speech.

Chua was then escorted to the airport nearby and placed on the last flight at 9.30pm back to Kuala Lumpur.

Earlier in the day, Chua had posted on Facebook about Zuraida’s denial of entry.

The PKR lawmakers were converging in Miri for the Pink Diamond fund raising dinner and the Purple Women’s Walk – a walk to protest against “toxic politics” – tomorrow morning.

The denial of entries came on a day when Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg told reporters that he would not stop PH chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad, DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang and other PH leaders from entering the state tomorrow for their PH ceramah in Kuching.

Abang Johari said they were “not important”, should be allowed to enter because they were “not extremists”.

Nurul Izzah and Zuraida are already on the state’s immigration blacklist and were barred from the state late last year and earlier this year respectively.

However, both were allowed in last month to attend the party’s raya open house in Kuching.

Chua  had also posted on Facebook a photograph of Zuraida flanked by two immigration officers and holding what looked like the “Notice of Refusal of Entry” that was served on her stating the “reason” why she was denied entry.

The typical reason given when denied entry is that it was done pursuant to Section 65(i) (a) of the Immigration Act 1959/63, which stated “the state authority has directed that no pass be issued to you to enter the State of Sarawak and such pass is required under Section 66 for you to enter the state”. – September 23, 2017.