Hundreds of Malaysian lawyers on Thursday (October 16) marched towards the Malaysian parliament house demanding the government honours its two-year-old pledge to repeal the Sedition Act of 1948.
The march is set to add to mounting pressure on the government to abolish the colonial-era law whose use in an ongoing crackdown has drawn criticism from both local and international groups including the United Nations.
Prime Minister Najib Razak pledged in 2011 that the law, which criminalises speech with an undefined "seditious tendency" against the government or which could upset racial harmony, would be repealed and replaced by new legislation.
