COMMENT | I was perturbed when singer and composer Mohamad Yasin Sulaiman was sentenced on Thursday by the Shah Alam High Court to life imprisonment and 16 strokes of the cane over three drug offences.

This was all the more confusing and upsetting because on Nov 29, 2023, Petaling Jaya Sessions Court judge Faiz Dziyauddin had acquitted and discharged the artiste on the three drug charges and ordered him to be placed at Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta, Perak, at the pleasure of the Selangor sultan.

The biggest problem here is that we have talked a lot about drug law reform...