{"id":80244,"date":"2020-06-23T14:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T06:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=80244"},"modified":"2020-06-23T14:41:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T06:41:36","slug":"mp-hannah-yeoh-gives-statement-to-police-on-social-media-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=80244","title":{"rendered":"MP Hannah Yeoh gives statement to police on social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FW1061242_KL11_02052020_HANNAH_YEOH_POLIS_BN202006223591-scr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FW1061242_KL11_02052020_HANNAH_YEOH_POLIS_BN202006223591-scr.jpg 640w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FW1061242_KL11_02052020_HANNAH_YEOH_POLIS_BN202006223591-scr-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FW1061242_KL11_02052020_HANNAH_YEOH_POLIS_BN202006223591-scr-560x404.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>KUALA LUMPUR: Member Parliament of  Segambut Hannah Yeoh speaks to reporters after recording her statement at the Bukit Aman police headquarters here on Tuesday. Accompanying her is her lawyer and former Minister of Communications and Multimedia Gobind Singh Deo.  Photo courtesy of BERNAMA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 (NNN-BERNAMA) \u2014 Police have taken down the statement of Segambut member of parliament Hannah Yeoh to facilitate investigations over a social media post\u00a0deemed seditious recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeoh arrived at Bukit Aman just before 10 am accompanied by her two lawyers,&nbsp;Gobind Singh Deo and&nbsp;Syahredzan Johan, after which her statement was recorded by an investigating officer for about an hour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gobind told reporters that Yeoh had surrendered her mobile phone and passwords of her social media accounts to help&nbsp;police investigations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department assistant director (prosecution and legal) DCP Mior Faridalathrash Wahid confirmed that the former&nbsp;Women, Family and Community Development deputy minister was at Bukit Aman this morning to record her statement in connection with a&nbsp;recent post&nbsp;on social media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case is being investigated under Section 4 of the Sedition Act 1948, Section 505 of the Penal Code and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 11, police had opened an investigation paper on a Facebook account posting&nbsp;belonging to one \u2018Hannah Yeoh\u2019 which was deemed seditious and inflammatory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 NNN-BERNAMA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 (NNN-BERNAMA) \u2014 Police have taken down the statement of Segambut member of parliament Hannah Yeoh to facilitate investigations over a social media post\u00a0deemed seditious recently.\u00a0 Yeoh arrived at Bukit Aman just before 10 am accompanied by her two lawyers,&nbsp;Gobind Singh Deo and&nbsp;Syahredzan Johan, after which her statement was recorded by an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":80248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80244"}],"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=80244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}