Malaysia sedition crackdown denounced - Features - Al Jazeera English: "Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is the latest figure to be caught in the government's widening sedition crackdown, in what one human rights group called "blatantly politically motivated".
Anwar will be questioned by police on Friday, and his lawyers expect him to be charged with sedition. He is the highest-profile figure to be investigated for "seditious acts". Lawyers say it relates to a speech he gave at a political rally three years ago, to mark the launch of a campaign relating to the 2006 murder of a Mongolian model, who was alleged to have had close links to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Fellow opposition MP Lim Kit Siang described the investigation as "the worst form of political vendetta and gross abuse of power".
At least 25 cases are now going through the courts, according to Lawyers for Liberty, a legal NGO. Among those charged is Anwar's own lawyer and opposition MP N Surendran."
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Friday, September 26, 2014
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