The conviction and sentencing of P Uthayakumar to 30 months’ jail at Kajang prison for sedition, in addition to the one-and-a-half years at the Kamunting detention centre under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in 2007 for essentially the same offence, is a miscarriage of justice. Firstly, the total of four years exceeds the maximum sentence of three years for sedition.
The failure of the Court of Appeal to overturn the unjust conviction and disproportionate custodial sentence imposed on a frivolous charge of writing a ‘seditious’ letter to the then-British prime minister Gordon Brown in 2007 is tantamount to condoning the political agenda of the powers-that-be.
In spite of the nominal reduction to 24 months, this is the longest custodial sentence in the 66-year history of the notorious Sedition Act 1948.
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