Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader P
Waythamoorthy was barred from leaving the country this evening on grounds that
he is a national threat.
"The immigration officers informed me that a
restriction has been imposed on me by the Immigration Department
director-general and the inspector-general of police.
"The reason given
from both sides is that I am a threat to national security," Waythamoorthy said
when contacted by
Malaysiakini.
He said he was to take a 6.30pm
flight to Manila in the Philippines for a business trip and is now stranded at
the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Sepang.
"The government has
cheated me. They issued me with a perfectly good passport on July 30 and then,
two months later, I am not allowed to go out of the country.
"When I came
into the country, I was not a security threat, but two months later I have
suddenly become a security threat," he said.
Waythamoorthy said he would lodge a police report against
Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein and the inspector-general of police for
falsely accusing him of being a security threat.
He will also lodge a
report against the director-general of immigration for acting beyond his
powers.
"They have basically made me a prisoner in my own country. It is
a breach of international convention and laws that stipulate you cannot prevent
a citizen from leaving his country without cause," Waythamoorthy
said.
The restriction would also throw a spanner into his plan to meet
with his lawyers in London this weekend for Hindraf's case against the British
government, he added.
The Malaysia High Commission in Singapore had on
July 30
granted Waythamoorthy a passport for his
return to Malaysia after his self-imposed exile in the UK since 2007.
The
Hindraf leader was
allowed to enter the country
on Aug 1, without any restriction imposed.
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