BUTTERWORTH, March 28 – Pas deputy president Mohamed Sabu has been detained by police at a restaurant in Sungai Dua here earlier. Penang Pas deputy commissioner Datuk Dr. Mujahid Yusof Rawa confirmed that Mat Sabu was detained by policemen at about 12.30am. “After our state Pas meeting, we were having a drink at Restoran Seven Star, after that a group of policemen in ski masks and guns escorted him out.
“I was told that he would be brought to the Seberang Jaya police station,” he said when contacted. Penang police chief Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi did not respond to queries at press time. It was learnt that Mat Sabu was detained for his alleged involvement in an illegal rally that is about to take place in Kuala Lumpur later today.
