Cops to question Yeoh after 157 reports filed over book

 

Police have already questioned 45 people in the investigation into allegations about Hannah Yeoh’s memoir ‘Becoming Hannah: A Personal Journey’. (Bernama pic)

PETALING JAYA: 

The police will record a statement from youth and sports minister Hannah Yeoh after 157 police reports were lodged across the country about her memoir, “Becoming Hannah: A Personal Journey”.

Police have already questioned 45 people, Kuala Lumpur deputy police chief Azry Akmar Ayob said, Harian Metro reported.

Several NGOs who filed police reports have urged the home ministry to ban Yeoh’s book on grounds of national security.

Yeoh has also filed a police report against “malicious” videos and messages insinuating that her book was part of her intention to convert Muslims to Christianity, or that she was working towards turning Malaysia into a Christian nation.

She said she considered the videos to be potentially damaging to her appeal in a defamation suit she lost against former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan regarding a statement made at a forum at Universiti Teknologi Mara four years ago.

She asserted that the statement accused her of writing her book to make Malaysia a Christian country, destroy Islam and the nation, and place her personal interests above the nation’s interests.

Yeoh, who is DAP’s assistant national publicity secretary, is also MP for Segambut.

Her suit was dismissed by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 23. The court held that Yeoh had failed to prove her claim on a balance of probabilities and that Musa’s speech did not specifically refer to Yeoh, and that many of his remarks referred to other people.

Yeoh said her lawyers have filed an appeal. - FMT