Update (3.30pm): Just received word that Hong Kai has been released.
Update (1.30pm): Just received word that Hong Kai could be released on bail at 3.00pm.
Suaram volunteer Tan Hong Kai has become the first person to be detained in connection with Bersih 3.0. Continue reading »
Ten Malaysians detained at KL Sentral as Najib arrived were taken to the Travers Police Station for their statements to be recorded. They were later released unconditionally at around 6.00pm.
Standing tall at the Travers Police Station - Photograph: Fadiah Nadwa
The 31 PSM activists, including Sungai Siput MP Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj, held yesterday at the Kepala Batas District Police Headquarters spent the night in police lock-ups. Over in Johor, some 30 PSM activists were released from the Ledang Police Station in Tangkak at around 4.00am. Continue reading »
First, a book launch last night without the author, cartoonist Zunar, who was arrested. Now a remand hearing without his lawyers.
Zunar’s lawyer Latheefa Koya lamented that the remand hearing this morning at the Sepang Magistrate’s Court was held despite the magistrate having been informed that the lawyers were on their way to the court, according to Malaysiakini. She later tweeted: “io informed Fadiah will only take stmt frm zunar after bringing him around 2 “crimescenes” etc -too funnylah! when no one disputing d comic.” He is expected to be taken to the Malaysiakini office early this evening.
Zunar has been remanded for one day, even as Malaysians continue to express shock and outrage over the popular cartoonist’s detention: “Free Zunar now!”
Read Aliran Monthly’s interview with ‘Zunar, the multifaceted cartoonist’ and Charter 2000-Aliran’s statement ‘Zunar’s arrest no laughing matter’.
The nine students arrested in front of Sogo this morning are now being held in Dang Wangi.
The nine were among were among a hundred who had gathered this morning for a rally organised by various student groups reportedly to express concern over campus election procedures.
Latest update from Suaram:
Altogether 9 persons were arrested by police for demanding campus autonomy and freedom of academic on 23 January 2010, between 11.30am and noon in front of Sogo shopping mall. Until 1.45pm, they are in IPD Dang Wangi.