PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim will seek to set aside the court order barring him and his supporters from coming within 5km of Parliament House.
Noting that the order had not been submitted to him but merely posted outside his house in Segambut, Kuala Lumpur, he described it as “slander and an abuse of the legal process”.“I will order our lawyers to initiate the legal process to set aside the order,” he said in a statement.
The ex-parte court order was obtained yesterday by Sentul district police chief Ahmad Sofian Md Yassin from Kuala Lumpur magistrate Nazran Mohd Sham. It also allows the police to arrest Anwar and his supporters on sight if they are spotted in the prohibited area.Anwar had earlier expressed the intention of attending parliament to hear the debate on the Pakatan Rakyat no-confidence motion today.
The statement also said Pakatan had not made any decision to organise a rally outside parliament.“The decision of the Pakatan members of parliament was clearly only to submit a motion of no-confidence in the government under 18(1) of the Pariamentary Standing Order,” Anwar said in the statement.
“I am disappointed that the police purposefully linked my name and Pakatan Rakyat in the magistrate court order obtained ex-parte by the Sentul district police chief dated July 13.”Dewan Rakyat speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia today rejected the Pakatan no-confidence motion.
This is the second time the police have obtained a court injunction to stop groups from assembling. In January, the Kuala Lumpur magistrate’s court granted the police a restraining order to stop the Coalition Against Inflation (Protes) from gathering at the Kuala Lumpur City Centre. It named five Protes representatives as being banned from the planned rally.
Lawyers have questioned the legality of such an order on grounds that it may amount to a violation of freedom of movement, which is guaranteed by the Federal Constitution.
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