'House arrest' in budget speech: PKR MP ponders on elite prisoners

Outspoken PKR lawmaker Hassan Karim found it bizarre that Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim touched on the issue of house arrest in his Budget 2025 speech.

The Pasir Gudang MP asked if this was an attempt to start the groundwork for laws to be amended to “lighten the sentence for certain elite groups”.

“There was only a single...