Malaysia legislation
Section 124g
of PENAL CODE
Section 124g
Any person who posts or distributes any placard, circular or other document containing any incitement to violence, or counselling violent disobedience to the law or to any lawful order, or likely to lead to any breach of the peace, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years.
Dissemination of information 124h. Any person who by word of mouth or in writing or in any newspaper, periodical, book, circular, or other printed publication or by any other means including electronic means incites violence, or counsels violent disobedience to the law or to any lawful order, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years.
Dissemination of false reports 124i. Any person who, by word of mouth or in writing or in any newspaper, periodical, book, circular, or other printed publication or by any other means including electronic means spreads false reports or makes false statements likely to cause public alarm, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years.
Receipt of document and publication detrimental to parliamentary democracy 124j. (1) Any person or any office bearer of any association or any responsible member or agent of any organization who receives any document or publication detrimental to parliamentary democracy shall deliver the same without delay to a police officer; and any person, office bearer, member or agent who fails to do so, or who, unless authorized so to do by a police officer not below the rank of Superintendent of Police, communicates to any other person, or publishes or causes to be published the contents of any such document or publication, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years.
Act 574
(2)
The document and publication referred to in subsection (1)
shall be presumed to be a document or publication detrimental to parliamentary democracy until the contrary is proved; and where in any prosecution under this section it is proved that a person was carrying or had in his possession or under his control a document or publication detrimental to parliamentary democracy he shall be deemed to have known the contents and the nature of the contents of such document or publication:
Provided that no person shall be convicted of an offence under this section if he proves to the satisfaction of the court—
(a)
that he was not aware of the contents and the nature of the contents of the document or publication detrimental to parliamentary democracy which he was carrying or had in his possession or under his control; and
(b)
that he was carrying or had the document or publication detrimental to parliamentary democracy in his possession or under his control in such circumstances that at no time did he have reasonable cause to believe or suspect that the document or publication was a document or publication detrimental to parliamentary democracy.
Sabotage 124k. Whoever, by any means, directly or indirectly, commits sabotage shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years but not exceeding forty years.
Attempt to commit sabotage 124l. Whoever attempts to commit sabotage or does any act preparatory thereto shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fifteen years.
Espionage 124m. Whoever, by any means, directly or indirectly, commits espionage shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years but not exceeding forty years.
Penal Code 79
Attempt to commit espionage 124n. Whoever attempts to commit espionage or does any act preparatory thereto shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fifteen years.
Waging war against any power in alliance with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong