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Malaysiakini
Perkasa head Ibrahim Ali grabbed media attention again today, just three hours after being convicted and sentenced for contempt of court.
Although fined RM20,000 and sentenced to a day’s jail – and taken to the lock-up at the the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex, he was spotted at the cafetaria about 4pm.
Ibrahim, who was with his lawyer and friends, was seen having a teh tarik.
Asked why he was out of the court lock-up earlier than 5pm, Ibrahim said the officers allowed him out after he paid the fine.
He was, however, told not to leave the court complex until 5pm.
Ibrahim Ali serves time with a teh tarik
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Malaysian Insider
Malaysia
Ibrahim Ali free after serving his one day in “jail”
And now he is free again. Ibrahim Ali leaving the KL Court complex after serving his 1-day sentence, spending time in a holding room within the court complex until the end of the working day. The Malaysian Insider pic by Najjua Zulkefli, November 19, 2013.
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Feee Malaysia Today
Ibrahim Ali guilty of contempt, jailed a day
The High Court made the ruling in regards to Perkasa’s attack against former judge VT Singham, while he was presiding Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim’s suit against Utusan Malaysia.
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Justice John Louis O’Hara sentenced him to one day jail and a RM2,000 fine.
On Jan 8, Perkasa published an article penned by Zainuddin Salleh, questioned Singham’s impartiality, his past judgments and also insinuated that he could be a homosexual due to him being a bachelor.
He launched the attack against Singham as the latter was the presiding presiding judge in the RM50 million defamation suit filed by Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim against Utusan Malaysia.
Speaking on the matter, PKR lawyer Latheefa Koya said that they brought a committal proceedings against Ibrahim and article’s author for defaming Singham while defamation suit was on-going.
“And today, Justice John Louis O’Hara found Ibrahim and Zainuddin guilty of contempt,” she said.
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Malaysiakini
Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali has been slapped with a one-day jail sentence and RM20,000 fine after being found guilty by the Kuala Lumpur High Court of contempt.
This followed the publication of an article by Zainuddin Salleh which was published on the Perkasa website.
The article questioned the integrity of another High Court judge VT Singham who had since retired.
The author had alleged that Singham, who was hearing the suit filed by Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim against Utusan Malaysia then, was pro-opposition.
Zainuddin had also questioned the judge’s sexual orientation for being a bachelor.
For this, the author was sentenced to four weeks jail.
The sentence was meted by Justice John Louis O Hara.
Following the judgment, Ibrahim would stay at the Kuala Lumpur court complex lock-up until 5pm today.
Guilty of contempt! Ibrahim Ali lands in jail
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