Zaid slams police over journo's arrest, contrasts inaction on PAS MP

Former law minister Zaid Ibrahim has criticised the police for arresting journalist Rex Tan under the Sedition Act, highlighting what he described as selective enforcement by contrasting the case with a PAS lawmaker who faced no action.

Zaid pointed to Pengkalan Chepa MP Ahmad Marzuk Shaary, who last October posted on Facebook an entry titled “Learning from the history of Palestine: Let us not repeat the same mistake”, which portrayed Malaysia’s non-Muslim and non-bumiputera citizens as threats to Malay-Muslim interests.

“It’s double-headed hypocrisy. Amanah was insistent that Marzuk be investigated, but...