The Court of Appeal has held that Section 3(3) of the Sedition Act 1948 (“Act”) contravenes Article 10 of the Federal Constitution and therefore is invalid and of no effect in law. This could be found in the Grounds of Judgement dated 25 November 2016 in Mat Shuhaimi Bin Shafiei v Kerajaan Malaysia. The coram was made up Lim Yee Lan JCA, Varghese George JCA, Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal JCA.

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