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Malaysian reporter’s sedition arrest casts doubts on Anwar’s reform record

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s record on legal reforms has come under scrutiny after a journalist was detained under a colonial-era Sedition Act for asking a “sensitive question” linking the Gaza crisis to the treatment of ethnic Chinese in the Malay-majority country. Rex Tan, 31, a journalist for local news site Free Malaysia Today, was arrested early Saturday morning after he asked the question at a public debate five days earlier in Kuala Lumpur. Tan is being investigated under...


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