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66454
Thu, 06/18/2009 - 20:03
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NO GOVT PLAN TO ABOLISH SEDITION ACT - MINISTER
KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 (Bernama) -- The government has no plan to abolish the
Sedition Act 1948 as its provisions are still relevant at the present time, Home
Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Thursday.
He said the provisions enabled the government to act if individuals or
organisations attempted to undermine security and public order.
"Individuals who use words of a seditious nature in their speech or writing
can be prosecuted under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act," he said in a written
reply to MP Karpal Singh in the Lower House of Parliament.
Karpal Singh had asked whether the government was prepared to abolish the
Sedition Act 1948 which was formulated to stop protests against the formation of
the Malayan Union proposed by the British administration then.
-- BERNAMA
Sedition Act 1948 as its provisions are still relevant at the present time, Home
Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Thursday.
He said the provisions enabled the government to act if individuals or
organisations attempted to undermine security and public order.
"Individuals who use words of a seditious nature in their speech or writing
can be prosecuted under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act," he said in a written
reply to MP Karpal Singh in the Lower House of Parliament.
Karpal Singh had asked whether the government was prepared to abolish the
Sedition Act 1948 which was formulated to stop protests against the formation of
the Malayan Union proposed by the British administration then.
-- BERNAMA