AIDA Najwa Nasir, the woman whom police barred from taking her sick father to hospital due to interstate travel restrictions, has been receiving online abuse on Facebook after sharing about her regret and anger at not being able to be with him before he died.

Aida’s 52-year-old father Nasir Nordin passed away on Wednesday at the Seremban Hospital from complications as a dialysis patient and a person with disabilities.

The eldest of three siblings, Aida posted about being denied permission to travel across state lines by police officers at the Salak South police station.

She had applied on April 17 for permission to make a short interstate trip to take her father to hospital, from her residence in Bandar Tun Razak in Kuala Lumpur to Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, a distance of about 40km.

Aida took her sadness to Facebook to share how her request was rejected by the police and informed her friends on the social media platform that her father had passed away the day after.

Her post was shared by many people but she then received verbal abuse by some individuals.

“Now that my father is gone, I thought that was it. However, people started condemning me instead of offering sympathy.

“I was targeted online. Unknown people commented on my post saying I lied to the cops and my father has passed away years ago. Some asked for proof that my father had died. Others said terrible words which I do not want to remember.

“My life has been tough, my dad just passed away and now people are saying nasty things about me,” said Aida in tears.

Aida has turned off her Facebook post to private mode.

“I still keep the post because it is sentimental to me but I made it private so people can’t comment or see it,” she said.

Yesterday, Free Malaysia Today reported that Aida went to the Salak South police station to ask for permission to travel to Nilai to take her father to the Seremban Hospital.

The 26-year-old had prepared supporting documents, except for a referral letter from the dialysis centre.

She said the documents she had were not enough for the police, who also questioned her rudely by asking why the aunt who usually took her father for dialysis treatment, or her two siblings, could not take her father to hospital instead.

According to Aida, a policeman retorted with questions like: “Where is your aunt? Did she die” and “Doesn’t she (your sister) know how to call a Grab?”

Aida eventually received permission to travel from Bandar Tun Razak to Nilai but her father had died by then.

Aida also said police contacted her regarding the rude officer but she refused to talk about the matter, as her intention was merely to share about the incident but not to cause further problems for the police.

The Malaysian Insight has contacted the Cheras district police chief for clarification but has yet to get a response. – April 30, 2021.