PKR leaders are presently negotiating with the police on where they should give their statements relating to a police probe into the Monday night Black 14 gathering. The police this morning rejected an invitation by the party for the police to come to the Selangor menteri besar’s office in Shah Alam this morning to take the required statements.
Instead the police are asking the PKR leaders - including party president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Selangor MB Khalid Ibrahim and party vice-president Azmin Ali - to go to the Selangor police headquarters, also in Shah Alam.
PKR leaders are currently in discussion with the party's lawyers on what they would do next.
The chain of event started yesterday morning when the police visited the homes of Wan Azizah, Khalid, Azmin and Yahya Sahri, an aide of Khalid to investigate into the gathering.
The police claimed that the gathering was illegal and conducted without a police permit.
Lawyers in discussion
However following their failure to obtain any statements from the PKR leaders, the police had then summoned them to the Dang Wangi police station at 3pm yesterday.
The party eventually decided not to go to the station unless the police showed them a copy of the police report said to have been lodged over the gathering.
Other leaders like Wan Azizah also had said that she had programmes scheduled for the whole day and would be unable to go to the police station.
Following that, the media was informed late last night that the PKR leaders would be able to meet with the police at Khalid’s office at the Selangor state building in Shah Alam this morning.
The leaders - and the media - were waiting for the arrival of the police since early morning today, only to discover that the police has refused to come over to the state building.
Khalid’s political secretary Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said that the police had faxed in their refusal this morning.
“Instead they want us to go to the Selangor police headquarters in Shah Alam. We are presently discussing our next step with our lawyers,” he told Malaysiakini.
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