KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — PKR’s Sim Tze Tzin and Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid — the father of student activist Adam Adli — today accused the police of “harassment” after both men were summoned over a vigil held for activists arrested outside Parliament last month.

The duo were today questioned under the Public Assembly Act (PAA) 2012 for participating in a vigil outside the Jinjang lock-up on June 24, to show solidarity with the 32 individuals who had been detained over a protest outside Parliament earlier that day.

“We feel that this is a harassment to us, because we were upholding justice by lending moral support to the youths,” Sim told reporters in front of the Sentul police station here, referring to the activists.

The Bayan Baru MP also revealed that student activist Mandeep Singh and Rozam Azen, who is an aide to PKR vice-president Tian Chua, were also summoned for questioning.

Lawyer Michelle Yesudas hinted that the probe was likely to find out the identity of the vigil organisers.

Sim and Abdul Halim also expressed concern that participants will be prosecuted every time a peaceful assembly is held.

“It’s not going to be comfortable anymore. Everytime we gather, we will be accused of an offence. For me this is not right,” Abdul Halim said.

Some 300 protesters, mostly dressed in black, called for the resignation of Election Commission (EC) members on June 24 after the contentious 13th general election that saw Barisan Nasional (BN) form the federal government despite losing the popular vote to Pakatan Rakyat (PR).

The protest ended about three hours later at noon after the demonstrators from some 50 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) handed a memorandum to Khalid Samad, the Shah Alam MP from PAS, to call for free and fair elections, for a commission of inquiry to investigate alleged electoral fraud in Election 2013, and to revamp the EC’s leadership.

However, 32 of the protesters were detained in the Jinjang lock-up, prompting a large group of people to hold a vigil in front of the venue that night.

All of the detainees were released the next morning.