UM lodges report over trespass of property after Anwar event


KUALA LUMPUR: Universiti Malaya (UM) has lodged a police report over trespass of property following a talk by PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Monday night.

UM media and corporate unit head Izzad Zalman Abd Kadir said the intrusion resulted in the collapse of the main gate when students had forced their way through.

"The talk was illegally held at Dataran Dewan Tunku Canselor.

"UM is built on a private-owned land. You can't simply trespass someone's property and hold a function there without permission," he told reporters outside Pantai police station on Tuesday.

Izzad was accompanied by the university's security director Yusof Harun and security officer Khairul Anuar Abu Shari.

The report was lodged at about 11am.

On Monday, a crowd of a few hundred people had forced their way through the locked gates of UM to attend Anwar's talk.

The de facto leader delivered a ceramah at the university prior to his sodomy appeal at the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya.

UM had banned the talk and its deputy vice-chancellor (student affairs) Prof Datuk Dr Rohana Yusof said that staff members were told to leave at 4pm, Monday, to facilitate "electrical maintenance work" at several electrical substations in the campus.

By 7pm, the two main gates of the university were locked and heavily guarded by security personnel.


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