Putrajaya’s Transformasi Nasional (TN50) plan, aimed at empowering Malaysia’s youths, would be meaningless if there are continued attempts to curb youth intellectuals through intimidation, said Kuala Terengganu MP Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah Raja Ahmad.

Raja Kamarul Bahrin said the most glaring example of such intimidation was the repeated arrest of former Universiti Malaya student Siti Noor Aishah Atam under preventive detention laws and the use of 40 armed personnel to arrest her.

He said that while Putrajaya was engaging in youth empowerment propaganda through TN50, they are applying “excessive force” to make an example out of would-be dissidents.