DAP activist Syefura Othman will be questioned under the Sedition Act over a Facebook post in support of activist Ali Abdul Jalil a year ago.

The young activist was taken aback over the belated police action on a #sultanbukantuhan Facebook entry but pledged to cooperate.

“I am a bit shocked. Why am I being questioned over a Facebook post from a year ago? Why is the police only taking action a year later?

“I will be going to Dang Wangi police headquarters to cooperate with police and ASP Khairuddin,” Syefura, who is better known as Rara, told a press conference at the DAP headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

She said she will be going to the Dang Wangi district police headquarters at 10am tomorrow.

In lending support, DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang questioned the reason for police investigation, just because Syefura was a Malay member of DAP.

“Rara is clearly being picked up because she is one of the active young Malay ladies who have come forward to see change.

“She has been punished; (they) try to frighten young Malaysians, particularly young Malays, from coming forward to bring about change,” said Lim, who was present.

During a question and answer session later, Lim claimed the crackdown was not just on Malay DAP members but on all young Malaysians.

Still mulling on Bersih4 mobilisation

Meanwhile, Lim said the party will decide on mobilising its members to participate in Bersih 4.0 rally.

“Well, we will have a DAP leader in charge. Please direct the questions to him,” said the Gelang Patah MP without elaborating further.

Lim ( photo ) also declined to comment on the possibility of marching along former Pakatan ally PAS.

DAP's spat with the Islamist party dragged on for months

Bersih 2.0's protest, slated for Aug 29-30, is to demand for free and fair elections.

The electoral reform movement came up with five demands for the Bersih4 rally: for clean elections, a clean government, the right to protest, the strengthening of parliamentary democracy, and to save the Malaysian economy.

The rallies, to be held simultaneously in Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu, and Kuching, is also calling for Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's resignation plus institutional reforms to ensure checks and balance in government.

However, deputy inspector-general of police Noor Rashid Ibrahim have warned that the rally could not call for the “overthrow the government”.