LFL: Arrest of 2 teens over video rant on SPM paper heavy-handed

Rights group Lawyers for Liberty has condemned what it described to be a "heavy-handed" approach by police against two Form Five students arrested in connection with a viral video of obscene remarks made against their SPM History paper.

LFL director Zaid Malek said the reported police raid at their homes, followed by arrest and a drug test, would have caused the two 18-year-olds and their family "extreme trauma".

"And all this over a video where...