If local cartoonist Leslie Chew, who is being investigated for sedition over his "racially insensitive'' cartoons, is charged, the disclaimers that he had inserted into his comic strips would be ineffective in his defence, said lawyers unrelated to the case. The contentious 27 March cartoon in the online strip called Demon-cratic Singapore is about how an allegedly fictional government treats the Malay population. Some lawyers interviewed described the circumstances of the case as "unique", given the cartoon medium and the element of satire. SMU Assistant Professor of Law Eugene Tan said that the Sedition Act does not "bar satire or black comedy but even something uttered as a joke can have seditious tendency", and the authorities have to look into such complaints.