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Malaysia has brought sedition charges against opposition leader and former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin for allegedly insulting the country’s former king in a political speech on August 15.
Muhydiddin, who governed the country between 2020 and 2021 and leads Malaysia’s conservative, Malay-centric opposition bloc, has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Remarks seen as denigrating the country’s largely ceremonial and highly revered royalty can be prosecuted under a Sedition Act stemming…
