Faced with criticism, Attorney-General's Chambers today said that it will review the sedition charge against Universiti Malaya (UM) lecturer Azmi Shahrom.

Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail said that it will also review other sedition charges, but did not specify which.

"The department stresses that the review process is normal in any prosecution process to ensure it is done with fairness, transparency and justice," he said in a statement.

Abdul Gani added that the chambers takes note of concerns raised by the public on any of its prosecutions and reviews cases on this basis.

The announcement comes less than 24 hours before UM students are due to hold a strike in solidarity of the law lecturer.

UM Student Union and UM Academic Staff Union will also hold a rally in solidarity with Azmi on campus at 1pm tomorrow.

The associate professor was charged with sedition over a remark he made in a news report on the 2009 Perak crisis.

He is among a growing list of individuals charged under the Sedition Act in the past year, despite the prime minister's promise to repeal it in 2012.

Today, a Facebook user Chow Mun Fai was sentenced to one year in jail after pleading guilty for insulting Muslim on the social media website.

He was sentenced under the Communications and Multimedia Act but was initially charged under under the Sedition Act.

Yesterday activist Ali Abdul Jalil was charged twice with making seditious statements on Facebook .

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