KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 — A group of University of Malaya (UM) students have vowed to continue their campaign demanding for the abolition of the Sedition Act 1948 if UM professor Dr Azmi Sharom fails to challenge the law tomorrow.

Progressive University of Malaya’s secretary-general Vince Tan said they will continue to hold forums or dialogues to call for the repeal of the colonial-era law.

“We will continue our campaign, we will do whatever we can,” Tan told reporters outside UM’s law faculty building here.

The Federal Court is set to decide tomorrow on Azmi’s challenge of the constitutionality of the Sedition Act.

On September 2 last year, Azmi pleaded not guilty to the principal charge under Section 4(1)(b) and an alternative charge under Section 4(1)(c) of the Sedition Act at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court over a remark he allegedly made in an article published on Malay Mail Online.

Section 4(1)(b) covers “uttering any seditious words” while Section 4(1)(c) deals with individuals who publish seditious publications, among other things.

If convicted under either charge for his quotes in the article titled “Take Perak crisis route for speedy end to Selangor impasse, Pakatan told”, the UM associate professor could face a maximum fine of RM5,000, a maximum three-year jail term or both.