A main Malaysian opponent ruler was alleged with two counts of sedition in a Selangor court on Tuesday for deliberately criticizing and bringing down the Selangor ruler, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah. But it was the Malaysian government that was put on the paranoid just after it made use of the controversial British-era Sedition Act opposed to the opponent politician, Sanusi Md Nor. Several political activists – and even a former lawyer of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim – marked that his Pakatan Harapan (PH) partnership had forcefully opposed the Sedition Act when it was in the opposition. Sanusi, 48, was vexedly sent to prison at 3am after more than a dozen policemen approached in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur where he was staying.
Whilst it was in the opposition, PH criticized for years the usage of the Sedition Act, considering it was unlawfully used by the Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) government against the opposition and to stifle free speech. PH and BN now rule Malaysia collaboratively after the November 2022 general election. The extremely renowned Sanusi, large crowds get attracted to him just like bees to honey, at his political rallies for his straightforward criticisms of the government, could be a buge stumbling block for Datuk Seri Anwar’s PH-BN bloc to win back the state in the Aug 12 elections for six states.