PETALING JAYA: Nooryana Najwa, the daughter of former prime minister Najib Razak, has questioned why Anwar Ibrahim was allowed to campaign during a general election while in prison but not her father.
“Is it because my father’s name is Najib as he is even prohibited from making any statements, including those related to the 15th general election?” Nooryana, also known as Yana, asked in an Instagram post.
She also uploaded a 2015 article about Anwar, who conveyed a message through his lawyer, Latheefa Koya, for the people to vote for PKR and its candidate, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, in the Permatang Pauh by-election.
Anwar lost the seat in February 2015 after the Federal Court affirmed his conviction and five-year prison sentence for sodomising his former assistant, Saiful Bukhari Azlan.
Yesterday, prisons department senior director (Prison Policy) Supri Hashim said Najib, like any other prisoner serving a sentence, was not allowed to make any statements.
It was previously reported that prisons department director-general Nordin Muhammad had said the former Pekan MP was not allowed to campaign in GE15.
Najib is serving a 12-year prison sentence in Kajang Prison after the Federal Court affirmed his conviction and sentence in a case involving SRC International funds.
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