{"id":3690,"date":"2020-04-29T16:25:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:26:04","slug":"mco-no-one-is-above-the-law-government-is-fair-to-all-ismail-sabri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=3690","title":{"rendered":"MCO: No one is above the law, government is fair to all &#8211; Ismail Sabri"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, April 29 &#8211; There is no such thing as different types of punishment for those who found\u00a0violating the Movement Control Order (MCO), said Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.<\/p>\n<p>He said the government has always been fair to all and the legal action taken was in line with the charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is above the law of our country. The government is fair to all, anyone who found violating\u00a0the law,\u00a0action\u00a0will be taken (against them) regardless of\u00a0their position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<p>&#8220;For example (the issue of fine) involving the Perak exco and the Deputy Health Minister, they were fined for violating the standard operating procedure (SOP) under the MCO directives,\u201d he said in a press conference related to the MCO today.<\/p>\n<p>He said both the exco and the deputy health minister were fined as they have failed to practice social distancing while\u00a0providing assistance to the people.<\/p>\n<p>Ismail Sabri also said that those who were sentenced to prison were not just violating the MCO but for other offences under the Penal Code.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<p>\u201cNot because there are two types (of punishment). (They were fined) over failure to practice social distancing. However, their offences fall under Act\u00a0342 which carries a maximum fine of RM1,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who were caught and sent to jail were for obstructing civil servants from performing their duty, fighting with the police, so the jail sentence\u00a0was due to other offences involving the Penal Code,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; BERNAMA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA, April 29 &#8211; There is no such thing as different types of punishment for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7574],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid19"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ismail-sabri-laa-720x470-1-e1586823114614.jpg",720,409,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ismail-sabri-laa-720x470-1-e1586823114614-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ismail-sabri-laa-720x470-1-e1586823114614-300x170.jpg",300,170,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ismail-sabri-laa-720x470-1-e1586823114614.jpg",640,364,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ismail-sabri-laa-720x470-1-e1586823114614.jpg",640,364,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ismail-sabri-laa-720x470-1-e1586823114614.jpg",720,409,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ismail-sabri-laa-720x470-1-e1586823114614.jpg",720,409,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ismail-sabri-laa-720x470-1-e1586823114614.jpg",720,409,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ismail-sabri-laa-720x470-1-e1586823114614.jpg",720,409,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ismail-sabri-laa-720x470-1-e1586823114614.jpg",720,409,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=7574\" rel=\"category\">COVID19<\/a>","tag_info":"COVID19","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","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=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3691,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions\/3691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}