Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Malaysia’s former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be charged with sedition on Tuesday, police and his party have said, over alleged comments about the previous king’s appointment of Anwar Ibrahim instead of him after a tight 2022 general election. Muhyiddin, who led Malaysia between 2020 and 2021, will be the country’s first former leader to be charged under the colonial era law, and faces a maximum fine of 5,000 ringgit (US$1,140), up to three years’ jail or both if found guilty. He allegedly questioned then-king Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah’s decision to back Anwar for the prime minister’s office despite Muhyiddin claiming he had secured a simple parliamentary majority.” (08/26/24)