1. Mohamad Sabu has served as the Member of Parliament for Kota Raja since May 2018, Kuala Kedah from November 1999 to March 2004, Kubang Kerian from April 1995 to November 1999 and Nilam Puri from October 1990 to April 1995.
21 Facts About Mohamad Sabu
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Mohamad Sabu is a member of the National Trust Party, a component party of the PH coalition.
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Mohamad Sabu has served as the 1st and founding President of AMANAH since September 2015.
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Mohamad Sabu was detained twice under Malaysia's now repealed Internal Security Act.
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Mohamad bin Sabu was born at Tasek Gelugor, Penang, Federation of Malaya on 14 October 1954.
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Mohamad Sabu has seven siblings, namely Fatimah, Abdullah, Zainab, Sofiah, Mohamad, Kasim and Zaleha.
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Mohamad Sabu's body was held at the Padang Menora Mosque.
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Mat Mohamad Sabu attended Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Bukit Mertajam in Penang before continued his studies at MARA Institute of Technology in Diploma in Food Technology.
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Mohamad Sabu had served as Deputy President of PAS, a former component party of the former Pakatan Rakyat and Barisan Alternatif opposition coalitions, from 2011 to 2015.
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Mohamad Sabu was elected to the party deputy presidency in 2011, running on a moderate platform against the conservative incumbent Nasharudin Mat Isa.
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Mohamad Sabu had served as the party vice-president prior to his election as the party Deputy President.
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Mohamad Sabu was the first non-alim elected to the party leadership or deputy presidency in over 25 years.
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On 13 May 2018, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad named three key members; Muhyiddin Yassin of BERSATU as Home Minister, Lim Guan Eng of DAP as Finance Minister, while Mat Sabu of AMANAH as Defence Minister in his Cabinet along with a Council of Eminent Persons.
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On 28 June 2018, Mat Mohamad Sabu announced that Malaysia will withdraw its troops stationed in Saudi Arabia to reflect the country's neutrality in the region.
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Mohamad Sabu was detained twice under the Internal Security Act : from 1984 to 1986 under charges of being involved in extremist movements, and from 1987 to 1989 as a result of Operation Lalang, an operation that remains controversial in Malaysian politics.
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Mohamad Sabu was detained in the Kamunting Detention Center together with Lim Kit Siang and his son Lim Guan Eng of the Democratic Action Party.
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On 21 August 2011 during a speech in Gelugor, Penang, Mat Mohamad Sabu stated that it was Muhammad Indera and the 200 Malayan Communist Party guerillas who participated in the Bukit Kepong Incident in 1950 who deserved to be proclaimed as national heroes and not the police officers who died defending the Bukit Kepong police station, claiming that the police officers were British officers and the CPM members were the true national heroes as they fought the British.
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On 30 August 2011, Karpal Singh, the Bukit Gelugor MP at the time, responded by saying that the 25 policemen who died were true patriots and that Mat Mohamad Sabu's statements were ill-advised.
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On 21 September 2011, Mat Mohamad Sabu was charged under Section 500 of the Penal Code at the Butterworth Sessions Court for aggravating the image of their police and their families in a talk at Padang Menora on 21 August 2011.
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Lawyer Mohamed Hanipa Maidin said Mat Mohamad Sabu was released on bail of RM15,000 until the day of trial.
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Mohamad Sabu was convicted on 24 June 2021 but the Kuala Lumpur High Court had on 27 October acquitted him by allowing his appeal to overturn the guilty verdict and eight-month jail sentence over the drug abuse case.