The Federal Government wants the controversial Sedition Act to not only punish those who release remarks that threaten national unity – anyone spreading, sharing, or retweeting those remarks can be considered seditious too.
A new amendment tabled in Parliament today seeks to make a significant change in the wording of the Sedition Act, from making it an offence for “importing seditious publications” to “propagating seditious publications”.
What this means is that anyone who shares or distributes a remark that is later found by the authorities to be seditious in nature, will also be liable to a charge of sedition under the law.
The Malay Mail Online also reports that Putrajaya intends to lower the minimum jail term for acts of sedition that lead to bodily harm or property damage from five years to three years.
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