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Why beat up Bersih people under investigation?
Malaysia activist says police tortured him
For surrendering to police, youth tortured under custody
Police tortured me, claims Bersih participant
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24 arrested, 96 more to go…
Every single person who has turned up at a police station has been arrested, and the police expect the remaining to turn themselves in?
“Why make their job easier?” may be the reasoning. “If they are going to arrest you anyway, make them work for their gaji, man! Let them look for you.”
24 Bersih 3.0 Demonstrators Own Up, Arrested So Far
Bernama
NILAI, May 15 (Bernama) — As of 11 am Tuesday, 24 people have surrendered or were arrested by police for suspected involvement in the chaos during the Bersih 3.0 demonstration held in Kuala Lumpur on April 28, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk …
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Police tortured me, claims Bersih participant
A technician alleges he was detained overnight and beaten up after he voluntarily went to the police station to give his statement about his participation in the rally.
www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/05/15/… –
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NST
15 May 2012 | Last updated at 04:13PM
Two men held in Perak for attending Bersih 3.0
IPOH: Police have arrested two men from Perak for participation in the Bersih 3.0 gathering in Kuala Lumpur on April 28.
Perak Police chief Datuk Mohd Shukri Dahalan said today a 43-year-old night market trader from Tambun and a 52-year-old plumber from Klebang were picked up at their homes last Saturday.
They have been handed over to Bukit Aman police headquarters for further investigation, he said.
“We have identified only two individuals from Perak who were involved in the Bersih 3.0 gathering,” he said after attending a police monthly gathering, here.
Read more: Two men held in Perak for attending Bersih 3.0 – Latest – New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/two-men-held-in-perak-for-attending-bersih-3-0-1.84176#ixzz1v1TxbiXE
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Free Malaysia Today
Police brutality ‘victims’ stage small demo
About 40 people who claimed to be victims of police brutality during the Bersih 3.0 rally staged a demo in front of the Bar Council office calling for an end to violence.
KUALA LUMPUR: Some 40 self-professed Bersih 3.0 victims of police brutality staged a small demonstration here calling for the end to police violence and to reform the police force.
“We want people who are against police brutality (at the Bersih 3.0 rally) to stand up and voice their grievances,” said the group’s spokesperson Gerard Suresh.
This was the first protest held by ordinary citizens against what opposition and Bersih 3.0 leaders called excessive police aggression on a peaceful assembly calling for free and fair elections.
Suresh said the protest started as a one-man-show when he was moved to start a Facebook page calling on citizens to express their discontent with the police handling of the rally.
Police fired dozens of what was said to be United Nations-banned teargas canisters and water cannons to disperse some 80,000 protesters on April 28 which resulted in a violent standoff between them and the authorities.
On the Bersih side, protesters claimed the police assault was uncalled for and unnecessary. They blamed the authorities for the clash that broke out just moments after the police moved in to arrest protesters. Scores were left injured while some were hospitalised including police officers and pressmen.
The Najib administration on the other hand said police acted accordingly and only retaliated after several Bersih protesters breached the barricades leading to Dataran Merdeka which was barred from public entry following a court order against Bersih 3.0.
But media reports and the surfacing of several video evidence of police aggression on the internet have forced the government to admit its fault and prompted the setting up of an independent panel to probe into the violence committed at the rally.
But opposition and Bersih 3.0 leaders have rejected the panel and called it a sham after Putrajaya announced the appointment of former IGP Hanif Omar as the head of the panel.
Suresh said he was not personally a victim of police violence but a teargas canister hit his left leg as he was trying to assist an elderly person to escape the fracas.
He also claimed to witness police aggressively manhandling protesters as they made arrests. The “violence”, he added, was what gave him the calling to hold today’s protest.
Majority of the protesters gathered in front of the Bar Council office here clad in yellow tees, the colour of the poll reform group, carrying placards saying “end police brutality” and shouted “police reform”.
Suresh, who is in his late 20s, said he hoped the protest against police brutality will continue until the force is completely reformed and police aggression ends.
“Now that it is okay to assemble, I hope citizens would use this opportunity to voice their concerns,” he said, referring to the newly legislated Peaceful Assembly Act.
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Malaysiakini
‘Let brutality victims do balai to balai search as well’
| Leven Woon 12:26PM May 12, 2012 |
A DAP leader is challenging the police to allow victims of alleged police brutality during Bersih 3.0 to conduct station-to-station search for their attackers, if the authorities claim to be fair in their investigations.
DAP Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng was commenting on a police ultimatum to 141 individuals allegedly involved in violence during Bersih to turn themselves in within a week or face a house-to-house search.
“If this is the case, then the police should also allow victims of police (brutality) to conduct a balai-to-balai search, especially the lady from Serdang who said she recognises all the police officers who had punched her,” he said at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today.
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Malaysiakini
Innocent people sought by police, says DAP
| Leven Woon 11:59AM May 12, 2012 |
The police list of 141 individuals wanted over the Bersih 3.0 rally has come under fire for comprising a number who are allegedly innocent.
DAP at a press conference today brought forward a Hindraf leader, one of the 141, to back their claims that the wanted list is erroneous.
Hindraf’s V Ganabatirau, who is also Selangor DAP state committee member, was in one of the photos on the police wanted list released on May 4, and was brought to the KL police headquarter two days ago for a three-hour interrogation.
He said he was accused of breaking police barricades placed at the intersection between Jalan Raja and Jalan Tun Perak during the mammoth rally for electoral reform.
However, he claims that the photograph of him was taken at around 1pm, before the commotion began.
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Malaysiakini
Bersih man scores high on police wanted list
| Wong Teck Chi 12:05PM May 12, 2012 |
A possible mistake of releasing mug shots of the same individual 4 times in the wanted list of 141 Bersih protesters was uncovered by netizens, bringing blushes to the police.
This, after the force had come under heavy criticism for the harsh crackdown on the Bersih April 28 rally.
The protester who is believed to be a PAS Unit Amal member, sports 
a chubby face, was found appearing 4 times in the batch of photos issued by the police on May 9.
The photos were labelled No: 7, 15, 18 and 21.
The first facebook user who spotted the similarity is believed to be Mohd Nor Amin Zainuddin.
He posted a comment in Kuala Lumpur police facebook at 2.59pm on the same day the photos were uploaded, saying which “the pictures no 7, 15, 18 and 21 are of the same individual.”
Fun time for netizens
Some facebook users also took turns to poke fun at the photos, with Atie Hazie writing that “The no 15 (picture) is not yet hot… no 18 (picture) has inflated because burning…”
The pictures later went viral on the facebook and some netizens have taken this turn of events as proof of police “unprofessionalism”.
The officer in charge of the wanted list at the Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department ASP Azmi Aziz appeared to be ignorant of what had happened when contacted by Malaysiakini reporter, only saying that “I will look into it”.
However, PAS Unit Amal chief Juhari Osman (left) said the episode is proof that the police are going on a “fishing expedition” with the authorities having no concrete evidence to prove the protesters’ guilt.
He accused the police of waging “psychological warfare”, using the photos to intimidate them into feeling that they had committed some offence or other.
PAS contemplating legal action
“We have get advise from our lawyers, when the protesters surrender themselves, they are not guilty yet. The police only can record their statement but not arrest.”
He also wondered why many Unit Amal members were included in the wanted list.
He said he will consult with party lawyers on further action on the issue.
Since May 3, the police had released several batches of photographs purportedly depicting individuals involved in the Bersih rally, totalling 141.
The police have given a one-week ultimatum to them individuals to come forward and assist in the investigation, or police will go to their homes for them.
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