Journalists held as Malaysian arrests mount

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police arrested a prominent publisher and a website editor for sedition on Tuesday, the latest targets in a mounting tally of detentions that is being compared to an infamous 1987 political crackdown.

Ho Kay Tat, head of The Edge media group, was arrested along with Jahabar Sadiq, chief editor of The Malaysian Insider news portal which is owned by The Edge, the portal said.

That followed the arrest of scores of people in recent days on sedition charges or for assembly violations related to a series of anti-government protests sparked by the February jailing of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.