{"id":14126,"date":"2020-06-18T14:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T06:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=14126"},"modified":"2020-06-18T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T10:06:22","slug":"identify-the-party-behind-the-fake-posting-first-as-it-was-obviously-meant-to-tarnish-hannah-yeoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/identify-the-party-behind-the-fake-posting-first-as-it-was-obviously-meant-to-tarnish-hannah-yeoh\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify the party behind the fake posting first as it was obviously meant to tarnish Hannah Yeoh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/featimg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14134\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigation process involving a fake quote posting under the guise of Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh is welcomed and she will cooperate fully with the police in relation to the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Bukit Aman criminal investigation department director Huzir Mohamed should <strong>identify the party behind the said posting first <\/strong>as it is elementary that to be liable for an offence under the Sedition Act, 1948, one has to be proven to be the maker of the offensive statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this regard, it is pertinent to note that Hannah had, <strong>as early as 11 March 2020,<\/strong> <strong>denied that the said Facebook post which was attributed to her, was in fact produced by her.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In such circumstances, investigating Hannah alone over the said post misses the point that she was not responsible for the same as <strong>it is obvious in this case, that the said posting was made by a third party with a view to tarnishing her image.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further, even if it is shown that the said post was shared on Hannah Yeoh&#8217;s Facebook page, it was done for the purpose of pointing out that the same was not made by her and was defamatory of her, obviously with a view to its removal, which is clearly not seditious by virtue of section 3(2)(c)(ii) of the Sedition Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It must be stressed at once that Hannah has denounced the said Facebook post at the earliest opportunity and cannot be responsible for the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>18 June, 2020.<br>Ramkarpal Singh <br>Member of Parliament for Bukit Gelugor &amp; DAP National Legal Bureau Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"801\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fakequote.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14120\"\/><figcaption> Hannah Yeoh&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=10157956266359034&amp;id=171292564033\">Facebook post <\/a>denouncing the fake poster on 11 March 2020 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investigation process involving a fake quote posting under the guise of Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh is welcomed and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[408],"class_list":["post-14126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-ramkarpal-singh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14135,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126\/revisions\/14135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}