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...