DAP’s RSN Rayer barred from entering Sarawak

 

DAP’s RSN Rayer was stopped at Kuching airport when he arrived for a ceramah.

PETALING JAYA: DAP’s RSN Rayer has been barred from entering Sarawak, where he is scheduled to attend a ceramah in Batu Kawa tonight.

Rayer said that the state immigration had denied him entry upon arrival in Kuching at 5pm. No reason was given, he said.

The former Jelutong MP said the decision to bar him from entering was “unfair”.

“I am a Malaysian, am I not? Why am I barred from travelling freely in my own country,” he said when contacted.

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Rayer questioned why there were travel restrictions for Malaysians from Peninsular Malaysia to Sarawak, when the nation is a democratic country.

“Am I being discriminated against just because I am a politician?

“Is this what you call a free and fair election? Is this what Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob calls ‘Keluarga Malaysia’?”

Rayer is expected to fly back to Kuala Lumpur at 9pm.

Sarawak – which retains autonomy over immigration matters – has previously banned other politicians, especially those from the opposition, from entering the state.

Rayer’s party colleagues Tony Pua and Teresa Kok were among those who had been barred in the past.

Others included PKR’s Nurul Izzah Anwar, Rafizi Ramli, Tian Chua and R Sivarasa. - FMT