{"id":79587,"date":"2020-06-18T16:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T08:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79587"},"modified":"2020-06-18T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T08:57:19","slug":"ex-minister-syed-saddiq-under-probe-over-alleged-seditious-remarks-in-tv-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79587","title":{"rendered":"Ex minister Syed Saddiq under probe over alleged seditious remarks in TV interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0KUALA LUMPUR, June 18\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Former Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman has been called in by Bukit Aman today to give his statement over an alleged seditious remark\u00a0made in an interview with an international television station last\u00a0March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department assistant director (Prosecution and Legal) DCP Mior Faridalathrash Wahid said the Muar&nbsp;assemblyman was expected to present himself at&nbsp;Bukit Aman at about 2.30 pm today to facilitate in the investigation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe case is being investigated under Section&nbsp;4(1) of the Sedition Act and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act,\u201d he told Bernama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Syed Saddiq in a tweet confirmed that he has been called up&nbsp;by Bukit Aman in regard to his statement during an interview with Al-Jazeera reporter&nbsp;Mehdi Hassan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe interview was for Al Jazeera and aired on March 6 (almost fours months back). I am ready to give&nbsp;full cooperation to the police,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0KUALA LUMPUR, June 18\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Former Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman has been called in by Bukit Aman today to give his statement over an alleged seditious remark\u00a0made in an interview with an international television station last\u00a0March. Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department assistant director (Prosecution and Legal) DCP Mior Faridalathrash Wahid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":55200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300,318,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79587"}],"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=79587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}