Hindraf Chief barred from entering Sarawak
Published on: Sunday, January 04, 2015
KUCHING: Hindraf Chairman P. Waythamoorthy is the latest person from the peninsula to be declared a "persona non grata" by the Sarawak Government and barred from entering the State.Waythamoorthy, who was due to speak at a public forum on the Sedition Act and its implications on the aspirations of Sabah and Sarawak nationalists Saturday afternoon, was told by immigration officers at the Kuching international airport upon arrival at 11.40am that they had received "instructions from the Chief Minister's Office not to allow him in".He had flown in on an AirAsia flight.
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"No reason was given," said Lina Soo, an organiser of the forum who managed to speak to Waythamoorthy for 10 minutes before he boarded the next available flight back to Kuala Lumpur.The former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department was allowed into a public area of the airport so that he could speak to Soo and another political activist Peter John Jaban of Radio Free Sarawak who were there to pick him up.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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