Putrajaya has cause to be afraid as the sedition case against Universiti Malaya academician Azmi Sharom is inspiring other academicians to fight back, Malaysian Academic Movement (Move) said.

"Now they have to be worried and afraid that we are reacting over the suppression and oppression on us," Move chairperson Wan Manan Wan Muda said.

Wan Manan said this after the first day of the trial against the law lecturer in the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur today.