Police have arrested journalist Rex Tan after he posed a question that was said to carry racial overtones during a public lecture in Kuala Lumpur featuring UK politician George Galloway, titled “Gaza Exposes the Complicity of International Actors”.

Tan, who resigned from FMT yesterday, was detained past midnight after he was summoned to the Dang Wangi district police headquarters.

His lawyer Rajsurian Pillai confirmed that Tan was arrested under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act.