Its chairman, Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah said that the flyers were posted on cars parked outside the court compound the very day the sentence was meted out.

Raja Bahrin said the flyers, said to be from Pakatan Harapan’s headquarters, stated that the sentence was a form of persecution on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

“Our stand is clear, we support and abide by laws which have been passed by the Terengganu state legislative assembly.

“It is clear that the lies are intended to incite hatred and anger among the people towards PH. This is a concerted and planned effort to slander Terengganu PH,” he said here today.

Raja Bahrin, who is also the deputy housing and local government minister, said Terengganu Amanah secretary, Zulkifli Ali, has lodged a report at the Dungun police headquarters on Sept 5.

He said this was the second time that Terengganu PH had been slandered.

The first was when a Facebook post alleged that Zulkifli and several other people had lodged a police report against the caning of the couple, although they were there to lodge a report on the fake flyers.

The social media user had also uploaded a picture of them at the police station.

“The man’s posting on Facebook was shared by several people and it went viral on several Facebook pages as well as on Whatsapp, giving a bad impression of Terengganu PH,” he said.

In connection with this, another police report was lodged on Sept 6 at Dungun police headquarters and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to track down the people connected to spreading the Facebook posting.