PKR member Iswardy Morni pleaded not guilty at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today to a charge of issuing a statement on his Facebook page that was deemed seditious and allegedly insulted the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

Iswardy (above), 44, is alleged to have issued the statement via the ‘Iswardy Morni Official’ Facebook page, which contained seditious words with a tendency to insult the king, at the Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department at 3pm on May 29.

The charge was framed under Section 4 (1) (a) of the Sedition Act 1948 and is...