PKR vice-president Tian Chua is prepared to go to jail after exhausting his final appeal on a one-month sentence and RM1,000 fine for refusing a police order to leave the restricted Police Training Centre (Pulapol) in 2012.
“(There is) nothing much to worry, I think I'll be jailed tomorrow.
“I’m ready to go to jail,” Tian Chua told Malaysiakini when contacted ahead of the Court of Appeal’s decision tomorrow.
The Batu MP said he is expecting the Court of Appeal to uphold a High Court’s decision in November last year, which dismissed his initial appeal against the conviction and sentence handed down by the Sessions Court on Jan 23, 2014.
Tian Chua was convicted under the Protected Areas and Places Act 1959 for refusing an order to leave the Pulapol complex along Jalan Semarak on April 29, 2012, a day after being arrested during the Bersih 3 rally in Kuala Lumpur.
“If the judge expands the sentence to one year's jail, I think that is too much, I don't think it's going to be so outrageous (one year jail).
“Most probably two months jail but I think the judge will uphold the High Court’s decision…,” Tian Chua said, adding that he is not worried about the possibility of losing his MP status or being barred from contesting in the next general election.
An MP fined more than RM2,000 or sentenced to more than one year's prison term, would lose his seat in the Dewan Rakyat and be barred from contesting for a seat for five years.- Mkini
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