The students from Gamis calling for the repeal of the Sedition Act outside the Home Ministry building in Putrajaya today. - The Malaysian Insider pic by Nazir Sufari, September 5, 2014.A group of Islamic university undergraduates staged a protest outside the Home Ministry in Putrajaya today and threatened to organise a street demonstration to protest the continued use of the Sedition Act 1948.
Gabungan Mahasiswa Islam Se-Malaysia (Gamis) president Abdul Malik Abdul Razak said a memorandum had been handed to the Home Ministry.
“We won’t hesitate to go to the streets,” he said at today’s protest.
"We urge Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to fulfil his 2012 promise and immediately repeal the Sedition Act 1948, and not use it for political interests," Malik said.
"We are of the opinion that the Sedition Act has been used to ensure the political survival of Umno and Barisan Nasional, and not to maintain public order and unity among the various communities in Malaysia."
Malik said they would continue to pressure the Prime Minister's Office until they received an answer.
More than 100 undergraduates gathered in front of the ministry today urging Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to repeal the Act.
They used a loudspeaker and a replica of a corpse to signify the death of democracy in order to pressure Zahid to accept the memorandum.
MORE TO COME.
- TMI
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