Kedah MB cleared of one sedition charge, another remains

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Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor has been acquitted and discharged of one charge of sedition by the Shah Alam High Court over alleged remarks against the Sultan of Selangor in a political speech last year.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/5n8bj23p  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Sri Muhammad Sanusi Madnor has been acquitted and discharged of

00:05one charge of sedition by the Shah Alam High Court over alleged remarks against the Sultan

00:11of Selangor in a political speech last year.

00:14Judge Datuk Aslam Zainuddin delivered the ruling after Deputy Public Prosecutor Datuk

00:19Masri Muhammad Daud informed the court that the prosecution did not intend to proceed

00:25with the first charge against the Janeri State Assemblyman and sought to withdraw it.

00:30However, the second charge of uttering seditious remarks against the Sultan of Pahang, who

00:36was the young Dipertuan Agong at the time, will proceed to trial from February 24 to

00:4228 next year.

00:44According to the two separate charges, Muhammad Sanusi was accused of making statements with

00:49the tendency to incite disloyalty towards the monarchy.

00:54The Perikatan National Election Director allegedly committed the offence during a political speech

00:59on July 11, 2023.

01:03Both charges were brought under Section 4, Subsection 1A of the Sedition Act, 1948, which

01:10carries a fine of up to 5,000 ringgit or a maximum of three years in prison, or both,

01:16on conviction.

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