By Patrick Lee
Haris Ibrahim has been barred from entering Sarawak
and will be deported back to KL
PETALING JAYA: Human rights
activist Haris Ibrahim has been denied entry into Sarawak and is currently
awaiting deportation.
Haris, the
Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) president, said that he was detained
by Sarawak immigration authorites after landing at the Kuching International
Airport at about 5.30pm today.
“The order
of notification is the same as the one in April (this year). (But) I haven’t
seen any papers (about this deportation) yet,” he told FMT through a telephone
conversation.
He will be
sent back to KLIA on a 7.30pm flight.
“They asked
me to pay for the air fare but I told them to ask (Sarawak CM) Taib Mahmud for
it,” he said.
Haris also
said that his trip to Kuching today was to host an MCLM event known as the
Rakyat Reform Agenda (RARA).
He added
that MCLM had held similar RARA events in both Tawau and Kota Kinabalu prior to
Kuching.
Haris was
barred from entering the state in April this year during the Sarawak state
election. At the time, it was believed that he was stopped from entering
Sarawak under Section 65 of the Immigration Act 1959/1963.
Under the
Malaysia Agreement, Sarawak has the power to bar anyone from entering the
state, including persons from Peninsular Malaysia.
Comment
This is how Taib Mahmud controls and retains his
dictator power in Sarawak which is supported by Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Good for UMNO/BN in Peninsular but bad for Sarawakians who are preys of
political struggle between interested parties.
Source : FMT
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