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It's a fate that also befell Leslie Chew last year, who was arrested and charged with "sedition" over the content of his cartoon strip, called Demon-cratic Singapore.

One of Malaysia's best-known political cartoonists has been arrested for sedition over a Twitter posting that criticised the jailing of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, the artist's wife said Wednesday.

The country's hardline police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said on Twitter Tuesday that authorities also would investigate two opposition politicians for sedition over tweets critical of the Anwar ruling.

Last month, authorities arrested editors from an online news portal for sedition, sparking outcry over the wide usage of the law.

Indeed, this sedition law is a carry over from colonial times.

More recently, she has come under investigation over possible sedition after she declared that Malaysia was not safe for foreign workers.

Sedition charges are hanging over several other activists and opposition politicians, including Tian Chua, vice-president of Mr Anwar's party.In this section The other half Confusion reigns Long arms Russian roulette Flag fall ReprintsThere was a strong sense of déjà vu about Mr Anwar's conviction.

1934 Controversial Bill Passed LONDON: Parliamentary and public excitement over the Sedition Bill, which was finally passed at its third reading in the House of Commons last night [Nov. 2] by 241 votes to 65, has given rise to unusually bitter comment and attacks in one of the hardest fought battles Westminster has seen for a long time.

Hours after Assad gave his televised speech at the parliament building, on March 30th, the members of the Deir Ezzor security committee agreed to consider it "a reference and a pillar in our work," and most of the group's future discussions were infused with anxiety over treachery, sedition, foreign infiltration, and "the Zionist American project".

Prime Minister Najib Razak's government has been condemned at home and abroad for filing a wave of sedition cases against its opponents over the past year, apparently in response to the opposition's growing electoral successes.

Colonial laws left over from British rule already ban sedition but have not been enforced in half a century.