48 Arrested at Rally for Democratic Reform
Police detained 48 people, including a journalist and two cameramen, near a Malaysian prison camp during a rally to protest a security law that allows for indefinite detention without trial.
The arrests were made after more than 300 activists chanted slogans for democratic reform near the camp in Kamunting, about 125 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, the capital.
Most of those arrested were released Saturday night, said Hanafiah Hamzah, one of the cameramen.
The opposition has frequently campaigned against the government’s use of the Internal Security Act, a decades-old law that was designed to quell a Communist insurgency that ended years ago.
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