Naib Presiden Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Tian Chua gagal dalam rayuannya di Mahkamah Rayuan hari ini untuk membatalkan pertuduhan di bawah Akta Hasutan 1948 berhubung kenyataannya terhadap insiden pencerobohan Lahad Datu, Sabah.
Panel tiga hakim diketuai oleh Presiden Mahkamah Rayuan, Tan Sri Md. Raus Sharif yang bersidang bersama Datuk Abdul Malik Ishak dan Datuk Lim Yee Lan memutuskan demikian secara sebulat suara selepas menolak rayuan Tian Chua yang juga Ahli Parlimen Batu.
Para peguamnya, Amer Hamzah Arshad dan Eric Paulsen ketika ditemui pemberita di luar mahkamah selepas keputusan itu memberitahu, mereka akan berbincang sama ada untuk mengemukakan rayuan di Mahkamah Persekutuan atau meneruskan perbicaraan di Mahkamah Sesyen.
Tian Chua, 50, atau nama sebenarnya Chua Tian Chang merayu terhadap keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi pada 26 September lalu yang menolak permohonannya untuk membatalkan pertuduhan tersebut.
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The sedition charge against Batu Member of Parliament Tian Chua over his alleged statement on the Lahad Datu intrusion, stands.
This is because the 50-year-old lost his appeal today, to strike out the charge.
Court of Appeal president Tan Sri Md Raus Sharif, chairing a three-member panel unanimously dismissed his appeal after hearing arguments from his counsel, Amer Hamzah Arshad, and deputy public prosecutor Yusaini Amer Abdul Karim.
Tian Chua, whose real name is Chua Tian Chang, was appealing against a high court decision on Sept 26, this year which had disallowed his application to strike out the sedition charge.
