KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysia university student was on Monday arrested by police and detained for reportedly wearing a protest Bersih 3.0 t-shirt on the Universiti Malaya (UM) campus. The event featured a dialogue with Prime Minister Najib Razak, who has been firm in his crackdown on Bersih activists since the rally in late April calling for increased reforms in the country. Koh Cher Hao, 21, a first-year Sports Science student, told reporters that three plainclothes police walked up to him in the early afternoon at the Tunku Chancellor Hall and asked him to follow them. He alleged that police were “unprofessional" as they refused to tell him why they wanted him to go to the Pantai police station. The policemen had showed Koh their authority card, of which he had taken photos. Koh followed them anyway and finally an officer told him that he was being detained under Section 103 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The event has sparked anger among activists, with a number of Bersih 3.0 activists telling Bikyamasr.com that this “sort of thing is to hinder and crackdown on free speech in Malaysia and should be condemned.”
