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PETALING JAYA: Two student leaders from the University Malaya New Youth Association (Umany) today filed police complaints about death threats they had received over the past three days.
The threats came after Umany uploaded a Facebook post about the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, which they have since deleted and apologized.
Umany President Robin Yap Wen Qing and his deputy Tan Li Yuan said the threats, via phone calls and text messages, began to arrive from Wednesday.
“Some of these messages include threats to kill us and our relatives. They threatened to throw acid and also rape female members.
“We are concerned that these people are misusing our personal data to harass us,” Yap said, adding that the threats had caused them mental anguish.
He said that nine members of Umany, including himself and Tan, had received these threats.
“One of our members has already submitted a report on this in his hometown. Today, we are both doing it here, ”Yap said.
The students’ lawyer, Kuhan Manokaran, hoped the police would take the threats seriously.
“The police have been energetic in pursuing investigations into Umany’s statement on Facebook. I hope they also take these death threats seriously, ”he said.
The police had investigated the Umany leaders through the Facebook post, titled “Yang di-Pertuan Agong should not intervene in national affairs”, for sedition and crimes under the Communications and Multimedia Law.
Yap and Tan were called in to assist in the police investigation earlier this week.
Since then, legal groups and human rights defenders have come out in defense of Umany and his leaders, calling the police action unfair.
Accompanying the group at the Petaling Jaya police district headquarters was former Umany president Wong Yan Ke, who has been charged with disobeying a police order to stop broadcasting a police raid on Yap’s home live on Facebook.
