The 12-year-old son of Malaysia’s firebrand former minister Rafizi Ramli was attacked with a syringe in a shopping centre car park on Wednesday afternoon, in what the ex-cabinet member said was a premeditated assault likely aimed at silencing his strident views.
The attack happened at a shopping centre in the administrative capital of Putrajaya, as Rafizi’s wife and son were about to enter their car.
“Suddenly a man dragged my son and stabbed him with a syringe,” Rafizi said in a statement,…
