{"id":2564,"date":"2019-12-11T14:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T06:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T06:45:15","slug":"anwar-ready-to-give-statement-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2564","title":{"rendered":"Anwar ready to give statement to police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 &#8211; PKR President Anwar Ibrahim has said that he is ready to give his statement to the police to help with investigation over sexual assault claims made by <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/2019\/12\/09\/yusoff-gave-statement-for-7-hours\/\">Mohammed Yusoff Rawther.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a short statement today, Anwar also thanked the police for expediting their investigation over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Referring to the latest slanderous allegation towards me, I thanked the police for expediting their investigations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to stress that that I am ready to give statement to the police immediately to assist with the investigation,&#8221; he said in the statement.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Police call Anwar to give statement<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The police had earlier issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/m.malaysiakini.com\/news\/503181\">statement<\/a> that they will be calling Anwar to help with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>CID chief Huzir Mohamed confirmed this in a statement, stating that an investigation had been opened under Section 354 of the Penal Code.<\/p>\n<p>Section 354 covers assault or use of criminal force to a person with the intent to outrage modesty, and carries a punishment of\u00a0imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years or with fine or with whipping or with any two of such punishments..<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>NMT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 &#8211; PKR President Anwar Ibrahim has said that he is ready&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23],"tags":[57,5902],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-scandal","tag-anwar-ibrahim","tag-yusoff-rawther"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anwar-in-mosque.jpg",1122,748,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anwar-in-mosque-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anwar-in-mosque-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anwar-in-mosque-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anwar-in-mosque-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anwar-in-mosque.jpg",1122,748,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anwar-in-mosque.jpg",1122,748,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anwar-in-mosque.jpg",1122,748,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anwar-in-mosque.jpg",1024,683,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anwar-in-mosque.jpg",713,475,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=23\" rel=\"category\">Scandal<\/a>","tag_info":"Scandal","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}