Tanjong rep acquitted of sedition

Ng: Said to have committed the offence in a press article.

GEORGE TOWN: DAP’s Tanjong MP Ng Wei Aik was freed by a Sessions Court of a charge of violating the Sedition Act.

Ng sighed in relief when Sessions Court judge Ibrahim Os­­man ruled that the prosecution had failed to prove a pri­ma facie case against him and ordered Ng to be acquitted and discharged at the close of the prosecution’s case.