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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was charged Tuesday with sedition over a speech he made that allegedly questioned the integrity of the country’s previous king.
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.
Speaking during a by-election campaign last week, he said he “was not invited to the palace to be sworn in” by the then-king “for whatever reason”.
Tengku Yasmin Nastasha, who filed the legal challenge against the Kelantan legislature alongside her mother, lawyer Nik Elin Zurina Nik Abdul Rashid, said in a post on X that “the vitriolic campaign waged against us by adversaries manifested in baseless allegations, portraying us as threats to the sanctity of Islam in our nation”.
Malaysia’s top court Friday struck down over a dozen Shariah-based state laws, saying they encroached on federal authority, a decision denounced by Islamists who fear it could undermine religious courts across the country.
The Kelantan state assembly in 2021 passed amendments to the state’s sharia law, broadening its powers to include criminal acts, amid a surge in religious conservatism that has triggered more frequent cultural clashes in recent years.