Jelutong MP RSN Rayer has invoked Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s “black eye” assault while in police custody nearly three decades ago in demanding answers over the death of detainee 42-year-old Noorizwan Zulkefly.

The backbencher reminded that the reformasi movement itself was partly shaped by outrage over Anwar’s assault while detained in 1998, and warned that similar allegations of custodial violence cannot be allowed to persist under the Madani administration.

“I want to remind the government: our prime minister went through this bitter experience when we began the reformasi movement.

“Have we forgotten what happened when the prime minister was assaulted all those years ago?” Rayer told a press conference in Parliament today.