KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 ― The police said today that they will act against Red Shirt rally leader Datuk Jamal Md Yunos for allegedly threatening to torch billboards calling for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s release from prison.
“We will take action,” Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said in a brief reply to Malay Mail Online.
The police chief, however, did not specify when Jamal, who is also Sungai Besar Umno chief, would be called in for questioning.
“You ask me during my PC (press conference),” Khalid said, when asked on the matter.
Earlier this week, Jamal caused a ruckus when he and dozens of his followers gathered in Ampang to protest against the Selangor government's usage of billboards in the state to campaign for the release of PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who was sentenced in February last year to five years’ imprisonment for sodomy.
The posters ― which have a giant picture of the former opposition leader accompanied by the hashtag #freeanwar and #savemalaysia ― were part of the PKR administration's commemoration of Anwar's first anniversary in jail.
One of the billboards was put up on Jalan Memanda, Ampang, which was where Jamal and his men had gathered at.
Ampang is a PKR stronghold. The federal seat is held by the party's women’s wing chief Zuraida Kamaruddin.
News portal Malaysiakini reported that Jamal and his supporters did not carry out their arson threat and that they plastered instead on Wednesday a banner over the billboard, with a caption in Malay that says: “Anwar is a liar and a sodomite. He had inserted his penis into another man's anus”.The white banner was later removed.
Jamal reportedly threatened to burn down all the billboards if the Selangor government does not remove them.
He gained notoriety as a leader of the Red Shirt movement that organised a controversial rally on Malaysia Day last year that saw anti-Chinese rhetoric.
MALAY MAIL ONLINE
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