Cops probing into video depicting Sabah, S'wak secession

The police have opened an investigation paper under the Sedition Act 1948 and Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 into a viral video of the Malaysian flag being taken down and replaced with the flags of Sabah and Sarawak.

Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain said preliminary investigations found that the incident happened in Melbourne, Australia, on Sept 16, supposedly as a symbol of the end of Malaysia’s “colonisation” of the two states in question and making them republics.

“Police received 35 reports regarding the video, with 34 police reports lodged in Sabah and one in Kuala Lumpur,” he said in a press conference at the Kuala Lumpur Police Training Centre today.

Razarudin said the investigations found that the video was shared by a Malaysian social media user with a Sabah address.

He said the man had two previous criminal records related to Section 500 of the Penal Code and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, and had been charged for an unrelated offence in Kota Kinabalu but was freed on bail of RM3,000 pending the mention of the case in November.

“We are investigating the connection between the suspect and the individual who was recorded doing the act (lowering the flag),” he said.

Earlier, a video lasting eight minutes and 13 seconds went viral on social media, showing a group of individuals lowering the Jalur Gemilang and raising the flags of Sabah and Sarawak in front of the Victoria Parliament building in Melbourne, Australia.

- Bernama

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