HOW CRAZY IS THIS? COPS ARREST DAP MEMBER WHO ALERTED PARTY ABOUT ANTI-PAKATAN VIDEO
The short video clip started with a pencil placed on a voting ballot in a column next to PKR’s logo while the BN logo is on top and the words, “wait, before you choose.”
The one-minute video went on to state that by voting for the PKR logo it is the same as voting for the “racist DAP,” liberal Muslims, LGBT (lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals and transsexuals) rights, foreign meddling, abolishment of Bumiputera rights, abolishment of the monarchy and a support for nepotism and cronyism.
It ended by telling viewers to make the right choice and vote for BN.
– Malay Mail
GEORGE TOWN – A Penang DAP state committee member, Jeffrey Chew Gim Eam, who alerted his party about a slanderous video clip against Pakatan Harapan (PH) was arrested yesterday for allegedly spreading the video.
Chew, 50, who was in charge of trawling social media sites and websites to detect any slanderous videos against PH, had forwarded the video clip he found to the Penang DAP election committee for further action.
DAP, through its councillor Teoh Koon Gee, had lodged a police report on the video clip on Monday, claiming it was a video created to slander PH.
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said instead of finding the source of the video, the police had arrested Chew yesterday afternoon.
“We lodged a police report so that the police can find the person who created the video but they arrested Chew who forwarded it to us to take action,” he said in a press conference in his office in Komtar today.
He alleged that this is clearly an abuse of power by the Barisan Nasional (BN) government through the police.
Chew was first called in as a witness on Monday to have his statement recorded about the video.
However, he was called in again yesterday and was arrested at about 4.30pm and he was only released at about 8pm on police bail.
RSN Rayer, who is Chew’s counsel, said Chew was not the one to created and spread the video.
“It was his duty to monitor the social media and websites for anything against PH and report it to the party so he did that when he found this video,” he said.
He said Chew was supposed to be a witness so he doesn’t understand why such an action was taken against him
Chew was arrested under the Communications and Multimedia Act and the Sedition Act.
On Monday, DAP’s Teoh Koon Gee lodged a police report on the video clip, claiming the content of the video was false.
The short video clip started with a pencil placed on a voting ballot in a column next to PKR’s logo while the BN logo is on top and the words, “wait, before you choose.”
The one-minute video went on to state that by voting for the PKR logo it is the same as voting for the “racist DAP,” liberal Muslims, LGBT (lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals and transsexuals) rights, foreign meddling, abolishment of Bumiputera rights, abolishment of the monarchy and a support for nepotism and cronyism.
It ended by telling viewers to make the right choice and vote for BN.