KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 5 -- A Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur has fined a Bersatu leader RM2,000 after finding him guilty of making seditious remarks during a by-election campaign three years ago.

According to reporting by Free Malaysia Today (FMT), judge Norma Ismail convicted Datuk Razali Idris after ruling that he had failed to raise reasonable doubt in his defence.

She ordered that Razali serve a three-month jail term if he failed to pay the fine.

The Kijal assemblyman and member of the Terengganu State Executive Council had been charged with one count of sedition over comments made at a by-election event at Padang Astaka Chukai in Kemaman, Terengganu, on November 10, 2023.

In his remarks, he questioned what he described as differing t...