Penang DAP MP Syerleena Abdul Rashid receives a death threat note

'Maut Menanti Kamu! & # 39; (Death is waiting!), The handwritten note in red ink ends with an exclamation

Newly elected deputy of DAP Seri Delima, Syerleena Abdul Rashid was shocked to find the note in the box letter from his service center in Taman Seri Delima, Georgetown, at 3:30 pm Tuesday.

"I found the note stuffed between several envelopes in the mailbox when I recovered the letters at around 3:30 pm yesterday (Tuesday) .I was surprised when I got it. I saw the note, then I was scared.

"It's a serious warning, I told the case to my team and we filed a report at the police station. Jelutong police yesterday at 7 pm "- first-trimester assembly, Bernama reports.

Pic: Bernama [19659005] Syerleena, at a press conference held after making a police report, added that she believes that the threat is related to slanderous statements passed against her who claimed that she would be used by DAP as a tool to "attack Islamic institutions."

"The slander that I am anti-Islam and anti-Malay began in March 2017 before to be replayed in August of the same year.

"During the campaign for the recent 14th general election, he was again brought to light, and the last was" I suspect that the death threat is the result of slanderous speech NST returned account of his assertions at a press conference yesterday.

While previous attempts to threaten her had been mostly on social media, this time the threat is hitting closer to home. Syerleena added that it was the fourth time she had to make police reports about the smear campaign against her.

She also alerted the police about the existence of several Facebook account holders who continued to post slander.

Police chief of the Northeast District, ACP, Anuar Omar, confirmed to Bernama to have received a report on the case being investigated under Article 507 of the Criminal Code for Criminal Intimidation by Anonymous Communication

– MD