KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 – PKR deputy president Azmin Ali, who is also Selangor mentri besar, challenged political foe Umno to take him on directly, not to disturb his 15-year-old son Mohamed Basheer Noor Alhaq and wife, Shamsidar Taharin which called for questioning by the police today after being spotted in the mammoth Bersih 4 rally last August.
“I ask Umno not to disturb my family and my son. They should directly to me, not use my son and my family. There were more than 500,000 people who gathered at Dataran Merdeka for Bersih 4 rally on last August. Why did they only target my son and my wife?” he told reporters outside the Dang Wangi district police headquarters here.
In the meantime, Latheefa Koya, the lawyer representing Basheer, also said that his 15-year-old son and his mother were both still being investigated under Section 4(2)f of the Peaceful Assembly Act that criminalises the act of bringing a minor to protests. She said that Basheer was asked five questions such as whether he attended the August 30 Bersih 4 rally, who had brought him to the rally and why he had worn the Bersih 4 T-shirt, which was declared illegal just days before the rally.
Mohd Razlan Jalaludin, the lawyer representing Shamsidar, said she exercised her right not to answer certain questions about her involvement with the rally, but insisted that they fully cooperated with the police to answering the similarly quizzed on her involvement in the rally.
