By Simon Peter
KUCHING, Jan 3, 2015: Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF)
activist Waythamoorthy Ponnusany was barred from entering Sarawak at the
Kuching International Airport's Immigration checkpoint this morning.
He arrived on an AirAsia flight from Kuala Lumpur, which landed at KIA at about 11.30am.
He was told by the Immigration officials to take the next
available flight to Kuala Lumpur.
As at 12.45pm, he was still at the airport.
Moorthy was scheduled to present a paper at a Public
Forum on Sedition Act 1948 this afternoon, representing Malaya.
Lina Soo, one of the organisers of the forum, said she
met Moorthy at the airport briefly.
She said the Immigration officials allowed him to come
out of the Immigration waiting room to meet her and another human rights
activist Peter John Jaban.
"He told us that the Chief Minister's Office had
instructed the Immigration Department to bar him from entering Sarawak,"
Lina said.
Other speakers at the public forum are lawyer Patrick
Anek Uren, representing Sarawak, Amdi Sidek from Sabah and international law
expert Robert Pei of Australia.
Other Malayans who have been banned from entering Sarawak
are controversial lecturer Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, parliamentarians Tian Chua,
Zuraida Kamaruddin, Teresa Kok and Rafizi Ramli.
On the Immigration blacklist include Perkasa chief and
religious bigot Ibrahim Ali and Isma leaders.
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