Kuala Lumpur, Aug 3 - A court will try for sedition a Malaysian Indian leader who published a letter addressed to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on a web site two years ago.

The three-day trial of P. Uthayakumar will begin Sep 28, the Sessions Court ordered, Star Online reported Monday.

Uthayakumar is the legal adviser of the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), a banned body that claims to speak for Malaysia's two million ethnic Indians, a bulk of them Tamil Hindus.

In December 2007, Uthayakumar had claimed trial for the alleged letter in which Hindraf blamed the former British colonial power for the plight of ethnic Indians in present-day Malaysia and demanded compensation.

The government pressed the sedition charge against him and four other Hindraf leaders -- S. Kengadharan, Ganabatirau, Vasanthkumar and M. Manoharan -- who had organised a protest rally here in November 2007.

Detained under the stringent Internal Security Act (ISA) for two years, they were released before completing their jail terms earlier this year by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak who said it was 'a gesture of conciliation'.