KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 — Selangor lawmaker Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad has been called in for questioning by the police for his involvement in yesterday’s #KitaLawan rally here that saw thousands flood the city’s streets in support of Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Lawyer for the PKR youth chief, Melissa Sasidaran said the police had contacted Nik Nazmi last night and asked him to head over to the Dang Wangi police station here at 10am to have his statements recorded.
“They called to inform his that they would record his statements and investigate him under Section 14(3) of the Peaceful Assembly Act,” she told Malay Mail Online over the phone.
However, she pointed out that there is no “Section 14(3)” in the law as notified but said she would be accompanying Nik Nazmi to the police station to find out more.
Thousands of Anwar supporters flooded the streets in the nation’s capital city yesterday, even braving a brief rain shower, to protest the government’s alleged mistreatment of the opposition leader who was jailed last month for sodomising a former male aide, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, in 2008.
The demonstration kicked off at 3pm from three assembly points within the city — Central Market, Masjid Jamek and the PAS headquarters on Jalan Raja Laut — before demonstrators converged at Sogo and then continued their march to the Petronas Twin Towers.
The police had previously issued a warning that the rally, headlined as #KitaLawan, was unlawful, as its organisers had failed to follow the conditions laid out in the Peaceful Assembly Act.
The #KitaLawan hashtag movement is a group formed in solidarity with Anwar with a number of its members comprising student leaders.
Despite the warning, the police did not attempt to stop the demonstrators.
