The suspension is ridiculous!

Sarawak English daily The Sarawak Tribune is suspended indefinitely by the government for reprinting the caricatures that satirised Prophet Muhammad. The controversial caricatures were first carried in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten.

I think many of us recognise that the Danish daily had done something terribly wrong (ridiculing Prophet of a religion). Even United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that freedom of the press should not be an excuse for insulting religions, and expressed concern over the controversy.
Nevertheless, criticising the Danish daily does not mean I endorse Malaysia government's action in suspending The Sarawak Tribune. Although the commissioner of the statutory National Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM), Hamdan Adnan supported the suspension of the Sarawak daily, but I would suggest otherwise.

If anyone is not happy with the daily, and does not want to accept their apology, sue them. Let the court decide whether the caricatures are seditious, we have ample law to deal with that. But if we allow the government to act discretionarily on the media, without trial, we are giving up our democratic system.

Therefore, we should put a stop on such arbitrary punitive action from the state, for it is not only jeopardising the press freedom, but also the judiciary system of the country.