Facebook users tell Bank Negara scholarship winner to don tudung
http://m.themalaymailonline.com/mala...-to-don-tudung
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 ― Hajar Nur Asyiqin Abdul Zubir, an 18-year-old who dreams of studying in Oxford University, is the winner of a prestigious Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) scholarship but to some on Facebook, the young Malay girl’s achievement has been shadowed by her failure to don the tudung (Muslim headscarf).
On the social media site, the chemistry student, upon winning the Kijang Emas Scholarship 2015 that allows her to pursue any field of study at top universities across the world, was told that her father would bear the sins of her not covering her “aurat”.
“Congratulations..but it’s a pity that the ‘aurat’ is not covered. Her father bears the sin,” a Facebook user called Rozaidi Jai commented on Friends of BN ― Barisan Nasional’s Facebook post Wednesday announcing Hajar Nur Asyiqin’s win.
Facebook user named Nazri Toushirou even called for conditions of the scholarship interview to mandate covering the “aurat”
“Don’t think it’s wrong, right?” he said.
Facebook user Mohd Sabri Hussien said: “Pretty looks, good at studies. It’ll be better if she wore a tudung”.
Another Facebook user, called Mohd Khairudzaman Bahaudin, said: “All right, congratulations, Allah hates His servants who do not cover their ‘aurat’, we succeed not because we’re clever”.
Other Facebook users, however, have since come to the 18-year-old’s defence, with one named Ag Sha saying: “It doesn’t necessarily mean that not wearing a tudung means you’re not religious..congratulations..prove to them that you’re not shallow in your religious knowledge”.
Islam as is practised in Malaysia is beginning to show signs of increasing conservatism, illustrated among others by the local boom in the tudung industry that was a rarity just several decades ago.
Friday sermons sanctioned by the government also repeatedly tell women to cover their aurat, with a Malay-Muslim gymnast recently getting backlash for wearing a leotard.
Local daily New Straits Times reported Monday that Hajar Nur Asyiqin ― who went to SMK Abdul Rahman Talib in Kuantan, Pahang, and is now doing her A-Levels at Tuanku Ja’afar College in Mantin, Negri Sembilan ― wants to study chemistry at Oxford University in the UK, one of the top universities in the world.
The paper reported that she scored 9A+s in SPM last year and that she had undergone group and individual assessments by Bank Negara before she was announced last April as one of four recipients of the Kijang Emas Scholarship.
According to Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz’s speech at the Kijang Emas Scholarship award ceremony last April, the central bank had received 212 applications for the 2015 Kijang Emas Scholarship and shortlisted the top 24 based on their SPM results and involvement in sports and co-curricular activities.
“The students then underwent a rigorous evaluation process under the Bank’s ‘Kijang Academy’ which assessed their technical and leadership competencies, as well as their values,” Zeti said in the speech made available on Bank Negara’s website.
Iran women’s soccer team captain to miss tournament after husband refuses to let her travel
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Iran women’s soccer team captain to miss tournament after husband refuses to let her travel
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By Marissa Payne September 16
Niloufar Ardalan, left, views for the ball during a match in 2006. (AP)
The Iranian women’s soccer team will be short one player when it travels to Malaysia to compete in an indoor soccer championship next week. That’s because, according to local reports, the team captain doesn’t have a passport — her husband refused to sign papers to allow his wife to renew it.
Niloufar Ardalan, 30, is married to sports journalist Mahdi Toutounchi, who under Iranian law has the right to keep his wife from leaving the country. His reason for keeping Ardalan at home, according to reports, is that he did not want Ardalan to miss their 7-year-old son’s first day of school on Sept. 23. The Asian Football Confederation Futsal Championship is set to run from Sept. 21-26.
[Hiker: “I was imprisoned in Iran for two years."]
Ardulan expressed dismay over her husband’s decision and called on the country to revise its laws when it comes to allowing women to leave the country.
“These games were very important to me,” she told Nasimonline (via news.com.au). “As a Muslim woman, I wanted to work for my country’s flag to be raised [at the games], rather than traveling for leisure and fun.”
She added: “I wish authorities would create [measures] that would allow female athletes to defend their rights in such situations.”
Ardulan, who has been heralded as Iran’s best female player, is a longtime advocate for women’s rights in Iran, especially when it comes to equal treatment in sports. In 2005, she made headlines for being one of the first women to attend a men’s national team match. She had to petition Iran’s soccer governing body for permission, however.
Unfortunately, not much has changed in Iran in the last 10 years. Despite promises to ease restrictions, women are still banned from attending men’s sporting events in the country. In some cases, the country has even arrested women who tried to do so. The most famous example came last year when Ghoncheh Ghavami went to jail for five months after attempting to attend a men’s volleyball game.
[FIFA President Sepp Blatter calls on Iran to end ban of women from soccer stadiums]
While Ardulan won’t end up in jail — without her passport, she has no choice but to follow the law and remain in the country — women’s rights advocates hope her case will raise awareness to bring change.
“This just shows to what extent this law can impact a woman’s life,” Shadi Sadr, the director of the human rights group Justice for Iran, told Radio Free Europe earlier this week. “Even if a woman reaches the highest ranks in politics, sports, or culture, she still needs her husband’s consent for one of her most basic rights — traveling abroad.”
Sadr continued: “[Ardulan] broke the silence, and this could lead to other women taking the courage to detail and shed light on other similar cases.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/wo...pede.html?_r=0
Hajj Stampede Near Mecca Leaves Over 700 Dead
Such a sad tragedy, just hope the SA govt with all their ill-gotten oil money spend more next Hajj on security and making sure this never ever happens again.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — In streaming ribbons of white, great masses of Muslim pilgrims made their way between cities of air-conditioned tents toward the next stop on their holy tour of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
Then something went disastrously wrong, trapping the crowds in narrow streets and touching off a mass panic and crushing stampede that left the asphalt covered with lost sandals, crumpled wheelchairs and piles of white-robed bodies.
It was the deadliest accident during the hajj pilgrimage in a quarter-century, with at least 717 pilgrims from around the world killed and more than 850 injured. And it posed yet another challenge for the country’s new leader, King Salman, who is already coping with low oil prices, a war in Yemen and an increasingly fierce rivalry with Iran.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...-crime-n433366
Member of Saudi Royal Family Arrested in L.A. for Alleged Sex Crime
A member of the Saudi royal family was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of trying to force a woman to perform a sex act on him, police said Thursday.
Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Drake Madison said Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 29, was arrested Wednesday afternoon on three counts, with the main charge being forced oral sex of an adult. Al-Saud is a member of the royal family, according to the LAPD.
Police said the alleged assault occurred in the Beverly Glen area in West Los Angeles, and the alleged victim was a worker at the property.
Officers were sent to a Wallingford Drive home Wednesday afternoon on a report of a disturbance, but when they investigated further Al-Saud was arrested on suspicion of the alleged sex crime as well as on suspicion of battery and false imprisonment, police said.
Jail records show Al-Saud was booked Wednesday and was freed on $300,000 bail Thursday. His next court date is Oct. 19, according to records.
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Authorities said it was not immediately clear if the suspect would claim diplomatic immunity, or whether it could be applied in the case.
There was no immediate comment from the Saudi royal family. NBC News was not able to reach a lawyer for Al-Saud.
http://www.nst.com.my/news/2015/09/3...jalan-alor?m=1
3 suspected terrorists nabbed near Jalan Alor
KUALA LUMPUR: Police nabbed three suspected terrorists in connection with a recent security threats made against the US Embassy and tourist hotspot Jalan Alor in Bukit Bintang.
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim said the men are a Malaysian, a Syrian and an Indonesian.
They were arrested in a raid carried out by the federal police Special Branch’s Counter-Terrorism Division near Jalan Alor about 6pm Thursday.
Noor Rashid said the arrests were made based on tip-off received by the division from their international intelligence network and surveillance.
He said police believed that the suspects were involved in terrorism activities, and had the intention to launch terror attacks on Malaysian soil.
They are being detained to facilitate investigations under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012.
On Thursday, the US Embassy here issued a security notification warning its citizens of a potential terrorist act, and advised its nationals to avoid Jalan Alor and its surrounding areas.
This move was then followed by the Australian and UK embassies here.
Today Saudi Arabia Will Crucify This Teenager for Protesting the Government
http://usuncut.com/world/today-saudi...ng-government/
Saudi Arabia, which was just admitted to the UN’s Human Rights Council days ago, will imminently behead and then crucify Ali Mohammed al-Nimr — a young man who encouraged pro-democracy demonstrations during the Arab Spring in 2012, when he was just 17 years old. In protest, the hacktivist collective Anonymous apparently shut down a number of Saudi government websites yesterday. Activists subsequently took to Twitter using the hashtag #OpNimr to oppose Saudi Arabia’s execution of al-Nimr.
Hacktivists aren’t the only ones in Al-Nimr’s corner: other figures to voice support include heads of state and celebrities like comedian Bill Maher, who last week tweeted his support for al-Nimr. Both France’s president and its prime minister have called on Saudi Arabia to abandon the execution. The UK’s newly-minted opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, wrote a scathing letter to prime minister David Cameron demanding that he call on Saudi Arabia to “commute the unjust and horrific sentence”.
No prominent American official has spoken out against the Saudi government’s sentence. When press asked the US State Department’s spokesman for his thoughts on al-Nimr’s case, he claimed that he was “not aware of the trial” despite international outrage. When asked about Saudi Arabia’s controversial appointment to head a key UN human rights panel, the US spokesman replied, “We would welcome it. We’re close allies.”
The US and Saudi Arabia have been close allies for decades — the US has approved over $90 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia since 2010. In 2014 alone, the US approved over $2.2 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.
Many of these weapons are now being used by Saudi Arabia in its invasion of Yemen — and is committing the attacks with intelligence and logistical support from the US. Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused Saudi Arabia of committing war crimes in its invasion.
Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen has killed over 2,100 civilians and displaced over 1.4 million people, with 13 million Yemenis now food insecure. The invasion has caused 21 million people to be denied life-sustaining goods and services. Saudi Arabia further exacerbates Yemen’s humanitarian crisis with its naval blockade, which restricts access to humanitarian aid.
Al-Nimr’s execution would be far from Saudi Arabia’s first: according to Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia ranks #3 among the world’s top 5 executioners in 2014 (the US ranked #5). Since 1985, Saudi Arabia has executed over 2,200 people for “crimes” including sorcery, witchcraft, adultery, and drug possession. Most of these executions were carried out in the form of a public beheading, though some were carried out by firing squad.
The Leahy Law prohibits the US government from providing military aid to countries guilty of “a gross violation of human rights”; however, the US continues to arm Saudi Arabia in clear violation of this prohibition.
The evil empire of Saudi Arabia is the West’s real enemy
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...-a6669531.html
Iran is seriously mistrusted by Israel and America. North Korea protects its nuclear secrets and is ruled by an erratic, vicious man. Vladimir Putin’s territorial ambitions alarm democratic nations. The newest peril, Isis, the wild child of Islamists, has shocked the whole world. But top of this list should be Saudi Arabia – degenerate, malignant, pitiless, powerful and as dangerous as any of those listed above.
The state systematically transmits its sick form of Islam across the globe, instigates and funds hatreds, while crushing human freedoms and aspiration. But the West genuflects to its rulers. Last week Saudi Arabia was appointed chair of the UN Human Rights Council, a choice welcomed by Washington. Mark Toner, a spokesperson for the State Department, said: “We talk about human rights concerns with them. As to this leadership role, we hope that it is an occasion for them to look into human rights around the world and also within their own borders.”
US ‘welcomes’ UN putting Saudi Arabia in charge of human rights panel
The jaw simply drops. Saudi Arabia executes one person every two days. Ali Mohammed al-Nimr is soon to be beheaded then crucified for taking part in pro-democracy protests during the Arab Spring. He was a teenager then. Raif Badawi, a blogger who dared to call for democracy, was sentenced to 10 years and 1,000 lashes. Last week, 769 faithful Muslim believers were killed in Mecca where they had gone on the Hajj. Initially, the rulers said it was “God’s will” and then they blamed the dead. Mecca was once a place of simplicity and spirituality. Today the avaricious Saudis have bulldozed historical sites and turned it into the Las Vegas of Islam – with hotels, skyscrapers and malls to spend, spend, spend. The poor can no longer afford to go there. Numbers should be controlled to ensure safety – but that would be ruinous for profits. Ziauddin Sardar’s poignant book Mecca: The Sacred City, describes the desecration of Islam’s holiest site.
Even more seriously, the pernicious Saudi influence is spreading fast and freely. King Salman has offered to build 200 mosques in Germany for recently arrived refugees, many of whom are Muslims. He offered no money for resettlement or basic needs, but Wahhabi mosques, the Trojan horses of the secret Saudi crusade. Several Islamic schools are also sites of Wahhabism, now a global brand. It makes hearts and minds small and suspicious, turns Muslim against Muslim, and undermines modernists.
The late Laurent Murawiec, a French neocon, wrote this in 2002: “The Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadres to foot soldiers, from ideologists to cheerleaders.” Murawiec’s politics were odious, but his observations were spot on. Remember that most of the 9/11 killers were Saudi; so was the al-Qaeda hierarchy.
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In the 14 years that have followed 9/11, the Saudis have become more aggressive, more determined to win the culture wars. They pour money into Islamist organisations and operations, promote punishing doctrines that subjugate women and children, and damn liberal values and democracy. They are pursuing a cruel bombing campaign in Yemen that has left thousands of civilians dead and many more in dire straits.
So, what does our ruling establishment do to stop the invisible hand of this Satan? Zilch. The Royal Family, successive governments, parliamentarians, a good number of institutions and people with clout collectively suck up to the Saudi ruling clan. I have not seen any incisive TV investigation of this regime. We know it is up to no good, but evidence is suppressed. Some writers have tried to break this conspiracy of obsequiousness. Craig Unger’s book, House of Bush, House of Saud was published in 2004. It established beyond reasonable doubt that Saudi Arabia was the nerve-centre of international terrorism. And that the Bush family was unduly close to the regime. Many of us believed the revelations were even more explosive than those by the journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who exposed the lies told by Richard Nixon.
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Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti says authorities not at fault for stampede
This deadly enemy will not be cowed or stopped by Trident. Our leaders know what is going on. So what do they do? They pick on the small people. The Government’s Prevent programme now imposes a duty on educators to watch out for young “radicals” and nip them in the bud. Older dissenters, too. To date, 4,000 young Muslims have been referred for reprogramming. One was three years old. In May, a young Muslim schoolboy talked about “eco-terrorists” and was taken away to be interrogated about whether he supported Isis. Academics, lawyers, doctors and nurses are also expected to become the nation’s spies. Mohammed Umar Farooq, a student at Staffordshire University, was accused last week of being a terrorist because he was reading a book entitled Terrorism Studies in the library.
In the US, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested because he took a home-made clock to school. (Richard Dawkins, these days a manic tweet preacher, questioned whether the clock was part of a “hoax” designed to get Mohamed arrested, before backtracking.) The West, it seems, is free only for some. And to be a Muslim is a crime.
Extremism is a serious problem. Westernised, liberal Muslims do try to influence feverish, hostile young Muslim minds, but we are largely powerless. Our leaders will not confront Saudi Arabia, the source of Islamist brainwashing and infection. They won’t because of oil and the profits made by arms sales. Political cowards and immoral profiteers are the traitors, the real threat to national security, patriotism and cohesion. How do they answer the charge?
Chinese Embassy allays worries over envoy’s remarks
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-...envoys-remarks
Chinese ambassador to Malaysia, Dr Huang Huikang (left), and his wife (centre) visiting Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown, last Friday. Accompanying them was Hawkers and Petty Traders Association president Ang Say Tee (right).PHOTO: THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
Envoy only expressed hope Malaysia stays united, prosperous, harmonious: Embassy
The Chinese Embassy in Malaysia has moved to ease concerns over remarks Ambassador Huang Huikang had made during a visit to Petaling Street last Friday, after he was summoned to Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry for “interfering” in the country’s affairs.
The embassy said in a statement that Dr Huang’s visit, which came nine days after a pro-Malay rally that accused Chinese Malaysians of trying to usurp political power, was an act of goodwill and not interference in Malaysia’s domestic affairs.
Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown, is a major attraction for tourists from China and a significant contributor of tourism dollars.
The embassy statement said the ambassador, who went there ahead of yesterday’s Mid-Autumn Festival, makes similar visits during other festivals, including Chinese New Year, Hari Raya and Deepavali.
“Dr Huang was asked some questions by the media but he only expressed the hope that Malaysia stays united, prosperous and harmonious,” said the statement, according to yesterday’s Sin Chew Daily. His visit was to show that Petaling Street was safe to visit, the statement added.
On Sept 16, pro-Malay figures, including Umno officials and lawmakers, gathered tens of thousands of supporters in a rally to counter last month’s demonstration by electoral reforms group Bersih.
The Bersih protest had also drawn a massive crowd in Kuala Lumpur to call for Prime Minister Najib Razak’s resignation over allegations of financial misconduct.
But the largely Chinese turnout led to a racial backlash that included threats of violence.
Traders in Petaling Street and Bukit Bintang - another tourist and shopping area seen as a symbol of Chinese economic power - either closed for business or deployed additional security for the so-called “red shirts” rally.
The Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement early yesterday that it would call in Dr Huang today to “seek clarification on his statement”, which “has attracted attention and caused concern to the Malaysian public”.
Dr Huang had said last Friday that China, Malaysia’s top trading partner, would not hesitate to speak out against any threat that may affect the country’s ties with Malaysia and that Beijing is opposed to discrimination against races and any form of extremism.
An Umno Youth leader has already called on Dr Huang to apologise, while Mingguan Malaysia, the Sunday edition of the newspaper owned by the ruling Malay party, also insisted the ambassador should be sent back to China for disrespecting Malaysia’s sovereignty, if an apology is not forthcoming.
“Whatever it may be, Dr Huang must apologise or return to his country and be replaced with someone who knows more manners,” the paper said in an editorial.
Even the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), an Umno ally, was forced to make a statement.
Its divisional leader, Mr Gan Ping Sieu, a former MCA vice-president, noted that Dr Huang’s visit, though well-meaning, was counterproductive and could be manipulated to the detriment of the country’s frayed racial harmony.
But the Federation of Chinese Associations Malaysia said in a statement yesterday that the government should withdraw its summons to the Chinese envoy.
It supported the embassy’s view that Dr Huang’s visit was to allay fears of racial clashes that had spiked following threats of a second “red shirts” protest last Saturday. That protest, however, did not materialise.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Natio...h-said-keruak/
Most Malaysians choose slower, cheaper Internet, says Salleh Said Keruak
Hahaha… Malaysians choose to be slower..What’s new…
PETALING JAYA: Most Malaysians choose to pay less for slower internet speeds instead of spending more on fast connections, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak (pic).
“Lim Kit Siang is grumbling about the slow Internet speed in Malaysia.
“Actually there are a wide range of Internet speeds that Malaysians can choose from but about 71% of Malaysian Internet users prefer the slower Streamyx broadband package that offers speeds of between 384 Kbps to 1 Mbps,” said Salleh in a blog post on Monday night refuting a blog post by Lim.
Lim had said that Salleh “appeared to be only interested in his blog and Facebook, busy with his new toy and cabinet assignment to be Najib’s chief propagandist to fight the prime minister’s political survival battle.”
“One would have expected Salleh to be very occupied with blueprints, announcements, statements or even blogs as to how Malaysia is to return to the front-line of information technology powers. But Salleh has been conspicuously unconcerned about Malaysia’s poor Internet infrastructure,” Lim said.
Refuting this, Salleh said that Lim’s complaints were similar to those of internet users in the United Kingdom, which is ranked as the 16th in Europe in terms of Internet speed.
“It is estimated that if Britain wants to improve the communications infrastructure it would need to spend about RM200bil.
“The question being asked in the UK is whether Internet users are prepared to foot his bill on top of the RM1,400 billion they need to pay for the other infrastructure like energy, roads and railways,” he said.
Salleh pointed out that even though higher broadband speeds are available, the majority of customers will subscribe to the cheaper and thus slower packages.
“In Singapore and Thailand the minimum speeds range from 4-5 Mbps. In Malaysia it is only 384 Kbps. Of course we can also do this for Malaysia.
“We can increase the minimum Internet speed to, say, 5 Mbps and force Malaysians to buy this higher-speed package. But that would mean the cost would be higher as well and Internet usage will be available to only those who can afford to pay the higher cost,” said Salleh.
He pointed out that Malaysians could choose a 20 Mbps package if they wanted higher speed internet services.
“However, most Malaysians would not opt for this and would still prefer the cheaper and slower speed Internet. So in the end it all boils down to affordability and Malaysia offers affordable Internet to those who want it and higher speed Internet to those where money is not a problem,” said Salleh.
He added that all Lim spoke about in his blog post was connection speed.
“Lim Kit Siang just talks about speed. Malaysia’s focus is speed, coverage and affordability. We want to ensure that by 2020 at least 95% of Malaysians will have access to the Internet. And we also want to ensure that at least 50% of urban areas and 20% of rural areas have broadband speeds of 100 Mbps,” said Salleh
Why fear Khairuddin if 1MDB papers fake, newsman asks Najib
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/m...man-asks-najib
Former Umno leader Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan should be allowed to provide the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with his supposedly “fake and doctored” documents on 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), said Datuk A. Kadir Jasin.
Writing in his blog, the former New Straits Times Group editor-in-chief said there was no reason for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to fear the former Batu Kawan Umno vice-chief if the latter was lying.
Instead, Najib should have faith in the American justice system to act against Khairuddin if the 1MDB papers were fake.
“If Khairuddin is a liar and the documents in his possession were fake or doctored, why should the prime minister fear him?
“Being a good friend of the US, he should have faith in the US justice system and allow Khairuddin to provide the FBI with the fake and doctored documents.
“Let the US arrest and prosecute him for lying. Lying to a US government agency is a criminal misdemeanour.”
Kadir also said Khairuddin’s arrest, as well as that of another sacked Umno member Anina Saadudin, showed that intimidation had become Najib’s strategy.
Anina was sacked after filing a suit against Najib to make him account for a RM2.6 billion political donation channelled into his personal accounts.
A staunch critic of Finance Ministry-owned debt-ridden 1MDB, Khairuddin was first arrested by police at his home in Mont Kiara last Friday.
Earlier on the same day, he and his lawyer Matthias Chang were barred from leaving the country by Immigration officers at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar had said Khairuddin was detained as his move to use foreign enforcement agencies to put pressure on Malaysia over the 1MDB issue could be deemed as an act of sabotage against the country.
Khairuddin first lodged a police report against 1MDB, which has debts of RM42 billion, in December last year, and was subsequently sacked from Umno for being declared a bankrupt.
He recently lodged reports with authorities in Hong Kong, Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom against the troubled firm, of which Najib is advisory board chairman.
It was reported that he was on his way to meet FBI officials in the United States when he was barred from leaving the country.
He was remanded for six days after his arrest on Friday and, on Wednesday, was rearrested under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (Sosma) 2012 as he walked out of a courtroom at the Jalan Duta court complex where a magistrate had released him.
Under Sosma, a suspect can be detained without trial for up to 29 days. – September 26, 2015.
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