{"id":32206,"date":"2019-07-10T15:25:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T07:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=32206"},"modified":"2019-07-10T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T07:25:30","slug":"malaysian-politician-out-on-bail-calls-rape-claims-nothing-but-slander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=32206","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian politician out on bail, calls rape claims &#8216;nothing but slander&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IPOH, Malaysia, July 10\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; \u201cI never raped her, molested her or harassed her in any way,\u201d Perak\u00a0state executive councillor Paul Yong Choo Kiong said today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beleaguered\u00a0State Local Government, Public Transport, Non-Muslim Affairs and New Villages Committee chairman, who was arrested yesterday after his maid lodged a police report that she was allegedly raped by him, said he is both shocked and confused by the allegations, which he\u00a0insisted\u00a0were fabricated.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yong, who has since been released on police bail, said he has cooperated closely with the police to ensure he is cleared of what he claims&nbsp;are slanderous allegations, adding that he is confident that the truth will prevail.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have brought witnesses to help in the police investigations and to show that this is nothing but slander,\u201d he said in a statement today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yong\u00a0said he\u00a0respects the process of the law and believes that the police will carry out their duties in a transparent and professional manner.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPOH, Malaysia, July 10\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; \u201cI never raped her, molested her or harassed her in any way,\u201d Perak\u00a0state executive councillor Paul Yong Choo Kiong said today.\u00a0 The beleaguered\u00a0State Local Government, Public Transport, Non-Muslim Affairs and New Villages Committee chairman, who was arrested yesterday after his maid lodged a police report that she was allegedly raped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32206"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}