COMMENT | Is asking hard questions now a crime? Yet isn’t this the basic duty of citizens? 

When journalist Rex Tan - formerly from Free Malaysia Today - was arrested for sedition, it was a blow to Madani’s promise of media freedom.

Yes, his question during a forum on the possible parallels between the Palestinian plight and discrimination against Chinese Malaysians was poorly formed and outdated.

He was referring to a 1956 novel, “And the Rain My Drink”, by Eurasian writer Han Suyin, which was set during the brutal Malayan Emergency. 

This was a time when...