KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 -- Putrajaya has advised the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) not to apply the Sedition Act 1948 pending its repeal, Datuk Liew Vui Keong said today.

During Ministers Question Time (MQT) today, the legal affairs minister also reaffirmed the government's intention to eliminate the law.

He was responding to Fahmi Fadzil (PH-Lembah Pantai) who asked about the progress of the pledged abolition and whether police would refrain from applying the law until then.

"On principle, the government is indeed in the process of evaluating this Sedition Act, with the intention to abolish it," Liew said.

He added that the police were told to avoid using the law as the government was in the process of reviewing the law with an eye on a...