Constitutional expert and law professor Abdul Aziz Bari was questioned for an hour by the police under the Sedition Act today, but he opted for silence and chose not to answer any question.

Aziz, who has been the subject of a flurry of police reports against him over comments he made in two articles published in The Malaysian Insider , was questioned at the Sabak Bernam district police headquarters this morning.

According to one of his lawyers, Afiq M Noor from Lawyers for Liberty, Aziz invoked Section 112 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC), which allows a person to remain silent if the questions could incriminate him.

Another lawyer who accompanied Aziz to the police station was Dheeraj Bhar.

"We have not been informed what the next step will be. They will inform us," Afiq told Malaysiakini , saying that the questioning ended about 12.30pm.

Dheeraj informed Malaysiakini that the police have not said whether Abdul Aziz will be charged.

He also said that, however, police did state that the probe was due to "orders from above".

The first of the articles in question was a Malay article titled 'Sultan Selangor terikat deklarasi 1992, perlu lantik Wan Azizah, kata Aziz Bari' (Sultan bound by 1992 declaration, must appoint Wan Azizah, says Aziz Bari), and another article titled ‘Only God, not Sultan, has absolute powers, says legal expert’.

Two reporters from The Malaysian Insider have had their statements taken over the said articles as well.

Aziz was also investigated under the Sedition Act in 2011, after he said the sultan's decree on the Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) raid was "uncommon and inconsistent".

If charged, he will the second academician to be prosecuted under the Act post-Merdeka, since the new dragnet started.

Previously, Universiti Malaya law lecturer Azmi Sharom was charged with sedition over comments he made about the Perak constitutional crisis of 2009 in an article by The Malay Mail Online .

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