RED Shirt leader Jamal Md Yunos, who missed his appointment with the police today, wants a guarantee from the home minister he will not be “persecuted” by the Pakatan Harapan government if he surrenders.

The controversial Umno leader, in a video recording from an oil palm estate, said he was already feeling the pressure from the authorities, whom he accused of going all out to get him for his past misdeeds.

“I ask the home minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, to guarantee that I, a political leader and activist, will not be persecuted. 

“I see what is happening to me today as similar to what had happened in the past when Dr Mahathir Mohamad pursued Anwar Ibrahim and his friends,” he said in the 7.5-minute video sent to the media today.

Jamal said he is getting a lot of pressure from the authorities who have raided his home and barred him from travelling overseas. 

“It is not that I am fighting the law, but I have been blacklisted and placed under security measures by the police. 

“My friends who were with me two years ago in the Red Shirt movement were also arrested and charged. Last week, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission raided my house, my mother’s house, office and other places. 

“I am worried and that is why I did not go to the Ampang district police station today even though I had promised that I would turn up,” he said.

The Sungai Besar division chief said there were hidden hands and “powerful people” who wanted to frame him under a more serious offence which will deny him bail.

He was earlier charged with being a public nuisance after he smashed several cases of beer in front of the Selangor state secretariat building last October.

He is also being investigated under the Firearms Act for displaying a pistol in public. 

Jamal was charged while he was being treated for a back problem at the Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital last week. He, however, fled the hospital while still under remand.

In the video today, he added that he did not want to be victim to those out with a vengeance.

In the light of this, Jamal urged police to give him more time to come forward. – May 30, 2018.