Editing Iskandar of Johor (section)

====Assault====
In late 1992, two separate assault cases by the Sultan as well as his younger son, Tunku Abdul Majid Idris, on hockey coaches culminated in the stripping of immunity of rulers from prosecution. Both cases received considerable attention in the local and international news which was dubbed as "The Gomez Incident".<ref>Crouch (1996), pg 146–7</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/12/15/mayl.php|date=15 December 1992|title=Malaysia Prepares To Strip Sultans of Their Immunity|author=Michael Richardson|publisher=[[International Herald Tribune]]}}</ref> The incident was kicked off on 10 July 1992, when Sultan Iskandar's second son, the Tunku Bendahara– Tunku [[Abdul Majid]] Idris, lost his temper during a hockey match with the Perak hockey team after Perak won the match by a penalty stroke, and assaulted the [[Perak]] goalkeeper, Mohamed Ja'afar Mohamed Vello.<ref>Prince to appear before MHF board, by Gerald Martinez, 10 August 1992, [[New Straits Times]]</ref> The goalkeeper later lodged a police report on 30 July. The incident received public attention, especially when the matter was debated in parliament.<ref name="Kershaw110">Kershaw (2001), pg 110</ref> The incident resulted in the Malaysian Hockey Federation issuing Majid — then second-in line to the throne after his elder brother — a ban of five years from participating in any tournaments following investigations.<ref>MHF ban Majid for five years, by Lazarus Rokk, 19 October 1992, New Straits Times</ref> Tunku Abdul Majid was later convicted of assault in January 1993, of which the chief justice sentenced him to a year in prison, on top of a RM 2,000 fine. He was released on a bail, and these charges were later dropped on grounds of immunity, which was still applicable at the time when the act was committed.<ref name="Asian_Bulletin">Asian Bulletin, Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League, Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League (China: Republic: 1949– ), Asian-Pacific Anti-Communist League, APLFD (Organization), Published by APACL Publications, 1993, pg 30</ref>

The Sultan responded to the ban by putting pressure on the state authorities to pull Johorean hockey teams from all national tournaments.<ref name="Kershaw110"/> In November 1992, Douglas Gomez, a coach for the Maktab Sultan Abu Bakar field hockey team, expressed his displeasure at being called to withdraw from a semi-final national hockey match by the Director of the Johor Education Department. The incident attracted the attention of the Sultan, who personally summoned Gomez to his palace, the [[Istana Bukit Serene]], where he was promptly reprimanded and assaulted by the Sultan.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.capi.uvic.ca/pubs/oc_papers/GILLEN.pdf|date=24–31 December 1992|page=16|title=Bending the rulers: Sultan's behaviour raises doubts over role of royalty|publisher=Far Eastern Economic Review|access-date=20 September 2007|archive-date=26 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326111658/http://www.capi.uvic.ca/pubs/oc_papers/GILLEN.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Following Gomez's meeting with the Sultan, Gomez sought treatment to his face and stomach. Subsequently, he lodged a police report against the Sultan for assault. Gomez elaborated that the Sultan's bodyguards and members of the Johor Military Force present were merely onlookers, and that the Sultan was solely responsible for the injuries.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.capi.uvic.ca/pubs/oc_papers/GILLEN.pdf|date=7 December 1992|title=Gomez: Sultan beat me|pages=1, 3|author=K. Vijayan|work=[[New Straits Times]]|access-date=20 September 2007|archive-date=26 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326111658/http://www.capi.uvic.ca/pubs/oc_papers/GILLEN.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>