Law and institutional reform minister Azalina Othman Said said it was sometimes harder to charge someone under the Sedition Act or the Penal Code.
It was easier to take punitive action, such as issuing fines, she said compared to charging the offenders under the Sedition Act. “But if we take punitive action, someone would just be fined,” she said after a forum at Menara Dato’ Onn, here.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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