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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 ― Hindu rights activist P. Uthayakumar lost his bid today to appeal his 30-month jail sentence for sedition after a High Court here upheld last year’s Sessions Court ruling on the matter.
In delivering his decision this morning, High Court judge Datuk Mohd Azman Husin said the lower court had not erred in meting out the punishment against Uthayakumar, who is the brother fellow rights activist and Hindraf chief P. Waytha Moorthy.
Mohd Azman said he will provide his grounds for dismissing Uthayakumar’s appeal in a written judgement later on.
Uthayakumar, an Indian rights activist and lawyer, was present in court and listened calmly as the judge delivered his decision. His wife S. Indra Devi was also present.
After the judgment was delivered, a number of Uthayakumar’s supporters seated in the public gallery silently lifted their hands to the leader after he left the court.
On June 5 last year, Uthayakumar was given a 2½-year jail sentence for writing seditious remarks in a 2007 letter to former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The former Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee’s jail sentence was meted just hours after his brother Waythamoorthy was sworn in as a senator in the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government following the May 5 general election.
