00:00The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court has slapped PKR leader Iswardi Morni with a RM5,000 fine
00:07for insulting the young Dipertuan Agong four years ago.
00:11Judge M.M.
00:12Edwin Paramjyoti said first-time offenders like Iswardi were generally entitled to some
00:17degree of mitigation, except in cases where the offence is so severe as to warrant minimal
00:22concession.
00:23Paramjyoti said in this case, the accused has no prior records of similar offences,
00:28which strengthens the argument for mitigation.
00:31The judge meted out the maximum fine of RM5,000 or six months' jail in default.
00:36Iswardi, the Central PKR Information Coordinating Secretary and Petra Jaya Division Chief, paid
00:42the fine.
00:43Paramjyoti said the impugned words uttered by the accused went beyond the bounds of permissible
00:48discourse and fell squarely within the ambit of sedition, both in substance and effect.
00:54He said the impugned statements were directed at the then-king, whose reign coincided with
00:58a period of extraordinary national and global turbulence, marked most notably by the COVID-19
01:03pandemic.
01:04Natasha Bust, FMT News.
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