Sedition: Preacher begins jail time after failing to quash conviction

Preacher Wan Ji Wan Hussin will begin serving nine months in prison over a 2014 sedition case linked to the Selangor sultan after the appellate court unanimously allowed his appeal to reduce his sentence which the High Court had previously enhanced.

However, the bench did not allow his appeal to quash the conviction.

On April 9, 2018, the Shah Alam Sessions Court found Wan Ji, who was the former religious adviser to the Penang chief minister, guilty of sedition and imposed a nine-month jail sentence. Both the accused as well as the prosecution appealed over the sentencing...