Decades-long jail terms may be commonplace

comments     Nigel Aw     Published     Updated

When political cartoonist Zunar was slapped with nine sedition charges, his lawyers were criticised for exaggerating that he may be imprisoned for up 43 years.

This is because a sentence is, by default, meted out concurrently unless specified otherwise by the court.

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