Police monitoring steadyaku47 blog for causing public uneasiness
(FMT) – The police are monitoring a blog named steadyaku47 after it posted an article criticising the Selangor Sultan.
“It has caused uneasiness among the public,” Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohamad Fuzi Harun told FMT when asked about the contents of the blog.
Fuzi said the police would check the background of the writer of the article published on Dec 13. “We will also check if the person who wrote the article is in Malaysia or overseas.”
The IGP added that so far no police report on the article has been lodged.
The sultan recently hit the headlines after he described Pakatan Harapan chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad as a man driven by hate and that his anger would “burn the country”, in an interview published in The Star to mark his 72nd birthday.
Earlier, the ruler was enraged by a remark by Mahathir that Prime Minister Najib Razak could have descended from a Bugis pirate.
The former premier said it while addressing an anti-kleptocracy rally at Padang Timur here on Oct 14.
Sultan Sharafuddin, whose forefathers were of Bugis lineage, said Mahathir’s remark would incite the people to negatively perceive the Bugis.