Some 100 PAS members and supporters urged the Home Ministry to pull the plug on Nanyang Siang Pau after accusing the century-old Chinese newspaper of stoking religious tension.
The demand was aired during a protest outside the daily's office in Pertaling Jaya over a cartoon which depicted PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang and Dewan Rakyat speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia as monkeys.
Gathered outside the front gates of the office, the protesters also gave the thumbs down sign for the publication.
Yesterday, Nanyang, which is owned by timber tycoon Tiong Hiew King, apologised for the cartoon and retracted it.
The cartoon lampooned the speaker, Abdul Hadi and other parliamentarians over the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 (Act 355) issue.
[More to follow]
-Mkini
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