In light of criticism over their silence on the issue, several Pakatan Harapan leaders have come forward to decry the continued use of the Sedition Act 1948 even as the coalition works towards abolishing the contentious security law.

Azman Noor Adam, the brother of Umno supreme council member Lokman, was detained by the police in the early hours of yesterday for allegedly insulting Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad on social media.

Today, de facto Deputy law Minister Mohamed Hanipa Maidin said that other laws ought should have been used instead...