Aziz, who is Selangor DAP committee member, had his statement recorded at the Gombak district police headquarters at 3pm today.

He said he found it “odd” that authorities waited this long to look into this matter and questioned the motive behind it.

“They are now reviving the cases that have been put on hold until now. From the point of democracy, it’s rather sickening, especially when you have it hanging over your head.

“It’s the way they slow down the ordinary process of citizens asking for openness,” Aziz told FMT as he left the police station.

Aziz was suspended by UIA in 2011 for his remarks regarding Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah.

The academic turned politician had labelled the Sultan’s intervention in the Selangor Islamic Religious Department’s raid on the Damansara Utama Methodist Church that same year as “unusual and inconsistent”.

Following his suspension, some 700 students gathered outside the mosque compound at the university’s Gombak campus to protest UIA’s decision.

DAP Segambut MP and lawyer Lim Lip Eng accompanied Aziz to have his statement recorded.