Did you know why a Law Academician was charged for Sedition recently?

Law Academician Dr. Azmi Sharom was charged under the Sedition Act recently, since then there were many protests from the usual suspects and behold a Cabinet Minister Idris Jala also joined in the chorus to get the Sedition charge against Dr. Azmi dropped. 

Here is a blog post from My Massa which I copy pasted and made nice a bit for clarity, to hopefully make us understand why Dr. Azmi was charged:

AYAT-AYAT HASUTAN AZMI SHAROM YANG PERLU DIKETAHUI

AZMI SHAROM HASUT RAKYAT BENCI SULTAN

APA MOTIF AZMI SHAROM HASUT RAKYAT?

AZMI SHAROM PERSOAL KUASA PREGROGATIVE SULTAN

DIA MEMPERSOAL KEPUTUSAN MAHKAMAH

1. In the case of PP v Karpal Singh [2012], the court has classified the words uttered by Karpal Singh as having seditious tendency under Section 3 (1)(f) for the following reasons:

“Dalam perkataan-perkataan responden dalam sidang akhbarnya, secara inti patinya responden sebenarnya bercakap tentang dua perkara pokok:

(a) Tindakan DYMM Sultan Perak memecat Dato Seri Nizar di abwah perkara 16(6) Perlembagaan Negeri Perak dan

(b) Tindakan Baginda melantik Zamri sebagai Menteri Besar Perak yang baru

Sama ada disukai atau tidak, adalah jelas bahawa kedua-dua perkataan pokok tersebut adalah mengenai atau menyentuh kuasa dan prerogative DYMM Sultan perak. Lantaran itu jika perkataan-perkataan responden itu terbukti mempunyai kecenderungan bagi mempersoalkan apa-apa perkara, hak,taraf, kedudukan istimewa atau prerogative DYMM Sultan sebagai raja, yang ditetapkan atau dilindungi oleh Perkara 181 Perlembagaan Persekutuan, maka perkataan-perkataan reponden itu mempunyai kecenderungan menghasut di bawah Seksyen 3(1)(f).”

DIA PERSOAL KUASA SULTAN YANG TERMAKTUB DALAM PERLEMBAGAAN

Read the blog post in full here.

Of course the final judgement guilty or not will be up to the Court and that is where Azmi should defend himself not on the streets with demonstrations or forums or trial by media.