{"id":12483,"date":"2015-03-23T18:51:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T10:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=12483"},"modified":"2015-03-23T18:51:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T10:51:49","slug":"tony-pua-meets-police-to-clarify-royal-my-foot-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/tony-pua-meets-police-to-clarify-royal-my-foot-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Pua meets police to clarify &#8220;royal my foot&#8221; Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12484\" style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6521.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12484\" class=\"wp-image-12484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6521.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6521\" width=\"635\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Pua said today that that his controversial Tweet was not directed at any members of the royal family<\/p><\/div>\n<p>DAP MP Tony Pua said today that he was not addressing the royal family in his tweet, which is being probed by the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) under the Sedition Act.<\/p>\n<p>This was to clarify to the police if the tweet where he said \u201croyal my foot\u201d following Nurul Izzah\u2019s arrest and detention over statements she had made in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was expressing my anger and frustration on YB Nurul Izzah being arrested and in particular being detained overnight by the police. I was not addressing the tweet to any member of the royal family,\u201d he told reporters outside the Bukit Aman police station today.<\/p>\n<p>On March 16, Pua had posted the comment: \u201cBastards. Real bastards. Royal my foot&#8221; on social media micro-blogging site Twitter, \u00a0after\u00a0news of Nurul Izzah Anwar\u2019s (Lembah Pantai MP) arrest surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Following the tweet, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar had in turn, tweeted\u00a0a snapshot of Pua\u2019s comment, saying &#8220;PDRM will call this YB in to explain what he meant by &#8216;royal my foot&#8217;. Was it directed at the Malay rulers?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6524.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-12487\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_6524.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6524\" width=\"689\" height=\"489\" \/><\/a>Accompanying Pua to at the police station was DAP Legal Bureau Chief Gobind Singh who said that investigations are still under way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will wait for the police to get back to us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>-The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAP MP Tony Pua said today that he was not addressing the royal family in his tweet, which is being probed by the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) under the Sedition Act. This was to clarify to the police if the tweet where he said \u201croyal my foot\u201d following Nurul Izzah\u2019s arrest and detention over statements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12490,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions\/12490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}