Lawyer Siti Kasim is expected to be charged in court next week for showing her middle finger to an audience at a forum in 2016.

Revealing this in a statement yesterday, Siti also alleged that the charge to be brought against her was the doing of a senior police officer, who "has been trying to put me behind bars".

She said that a police inspector called and told her yesterday that there was instruction to charge her under Section 509 of the Penal Code over the incident in Shah Alam...