Government urged to act on threats against Malaysian students
(SBS) – Senator Nick Xenophon has condemned a Malaysian consulate email sent to students urging them not to attend a lecture in Adelaide by Anwar Ibrahim.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has called on Australia to condemn threats made to Adelaide scholarship students about attending his public forum.
They have been warned their scholarships are under threat if they attend Mr Anwar’s address to Adelaide’s Festival of Ideas on Saturday.
They have been sent an email by the student adviser at the Malaysian consulate in Sydney who told them to “refrain from further joining this activity”.
“You are smarter to think and focus on what matters rather than joining this activity that could make your hardship in maintaining good grades and earning the scholarship goes down the drain.”
On his arrival in Adelaide on Friday, Mr Anwar told journalists he regretted the fact that the Malaysian authorities had decided to intimidate students to stop them from meeting him.
Read more at: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/10/18/government-urged-act-threats-against-malaysian-students
