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Hindraf leader faces sedition case

SINGAPORE: P. Uthayakumar, a leader of the proscribed Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) in Malaysia, was produced in a Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur on Monday on a sedition charge. This coincided with a move by the opposition parties in Parliament to question the ban itself.

Mr. Uthayakumar is already in detention under the strict Internal Security Act, on the ground that he and four other Hindraf leaders had tried last year to foment racial hatred in Malaysia . The sedition case relates to the contents of a ‘letter,’ addressed to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and posted on a website, in the context of protest rallies that Hindraf organised last November, demanding a “fair deal” for the minorities. Mr. Uthayakumar had, accused the authorities of resorting to an “ethnic cleansing” of the people of Indian origin, the second largest minority in the country.

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