This Dato' is a liar?

He he he!

Do I really have to laugh reading this, ‘Dalil’ author jailed a year?

What about his other 'lies'?

Errr, what about his Datuk'ship? Will Malaccan be deprived of one more of its respected Datuk's? Hidup Ali Rustam! Hidup UMNO!

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The Star Online > Courts

Saturday July 9, 2005

‘Dalil’ author jailed a year

Khalid: 'If I say anything, the judge might get angry'

KUALA LUMPUR: The author of 50 Dalil Mengapa Anwar Tidak Boleh Jadi PM (50 Reasons Why Anwar Cannot Be PM) has been jailed a year by the Sessions Court in Ampang for publishing false news seven years ago.

Datuk Abdul Khalid @ Khalid Jafri Bakar Shah was, however, granted a stay of execution by judge Mohamed Saman Mohd Ramli pending an appeal.

The author appeared calm as the sentence was pronounced.

Asked what he thought of the sentence, he replied: ”It's hard for me to say. If I say anything, the judge might get angry. So we hope God's law will prevail. What is haram remains haram. It cannot be made halal.”

Khalid was convicted on June 25 of the offence under Section 8A (1) of the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, which carries a jail term of up to three years or a maximum fine of RM20,000, or both, if convicted.

The RM5,000 bail posted by Khalid after he was charged was extended by the court pending appeal.

In stating the grounds of judgement, Mohamed Saman said the writer had committed a serious offence.

He said Khalid's actions had jeopardised the image of Mohamed Azmin Ali (then private secretary to former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim), Azmin's wife Shamsidar Taharin and their daughter Afifa.

“When the child grows up, she may keep asking herself 'Who am I'?”

He said the girl would be able to do her research by referring to newspaper reports.

“And she will find out that her own aunt had disputed her parentage.

“Should Afifa be made to go through all this?” he asked.

Khalid was charged on Aug 12, 1998, with committing the offence at the Media Pulau Lagenda office in Taman Kosas in Ampang, Selangor, in May 1998.

In the course of his trial, 11 witnesses testified for the prosecution, while Khalid and Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Musa Hassan testified as defence witnesses.

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