{"id":48733,"date":"2024-02-06T17:41:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T09:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=48733"},"modified":"2024-02-06T17:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T09:41:15","slug":"media-release-by-hannah-yeoh-dated-6-february-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/media-release-by-hannah-yeoh-dated-6-february-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Release by Hannah Yeoh dated 6 February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I welcome the decision by Kamarul Zaman bin Haji Yusoff to retract his defamation suit against me for an alleged \u201cdefamatory\u201d Facebook post in 2020. He has filed a notice of discontinuance in court on 30 January 2024 with costs in the sum of RM5,000.00 to be paid to me, without liberty to file afresh.<\/div>\n
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In 2020, Kamarul Zaman made the comment \u201cUsing religion to win the state election?\u201d on a banner featuring my image, insinuating that I employed religious tactics while campaigning during the Sabah state elections. I promptly responded, highlighting his attempt to stoke racial and religious sentiments. Instead of retracting his statement and offering me an apology at that time, he decided to initiate a defamation lawsuit against me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I made it clear that I was thoroughly prepared to defend myself.<\/div>\n
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Therefore, his withdrawal of this defamation suit is not only timely but also confirms my steadfast position that I did not exploit race and religion in my campaign, rendering his accusations against me baseless and unsubstantiated.<\/div>\n
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Now that the suit has been withdrawn, I wish to lay this matter to rest. A big thank you to my lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo<\/span><\/a> for her effort in this case.<\/div>\n
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**Note : I have also sued Kamarul Zaman for defamation in relation to his writings about my book Becoming Hannah and I will proceed with my suit against him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I welcome the decision by Kamarul Zaman bin Haji Yusoff to retract his defamation suit against me for an alleged \u201cdefamatory\u201d Facebook post in 2020. He has filed a notice of discontinuance in court on 30 January 2024 with costs in the sum of RM5,000.00 to be paid to me, without liberty to file afresh. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":48736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,475],"tags":[304,3084,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-48733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-affairs","8":"category-national","9":"tag-hannah-yeoh","10":"tag-kamarul-zaman","11":"tag-sabah"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48737,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48733\/revisions\/48737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}