Court acquits Tian Chua of sedition charge


KUALA LUMPUR: PKR vice-president Chua Tian Chang has been acquitted of the charge of making a seditious statement linking the Government and Umno to last year’s Lahad Datu intrusion.

Sessions Court judge Norshari-dah Awang discharged Chua, better known as Tian Chua, without ordering him to enter his de-fence.

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