KUALA LUMPUR: Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak slammed reporters from the Sarawak Report who stalked and harassed the Malaysian Prime Minister's wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, in London, yesterday.
He said the reporters were absolutely rude and lacked decorum, and demonstrated that they “are a low class of people.”
"We would expect people from so-called civilised England to at least show respect to the wife of a foreign Prime Minister, but apparently, diplomacy is reserved only for their own kind.
"They shouted slanderous allegations that are nothing but a pack of lies, while saying that freedom of the press allows them to say whatever they like.
“They then asked Rosmah ‘why come to the United Kingdom if (you do) not want to be stalked," Salleh wrote in a post on his blog, sskeruak.blogspot.my, today.
He also pointed out the fact that the Sarawak Report have refused to publish their accounts and reveal their source of funds, which showed that they are afraid of being transparent – yet accuse others of not being transparent.
Rosmah, who is patron of Permata Negara, is on a seven-day visit to the UK to expand the Permata programme.