Police spokesman Mohamed Ramli Yoosuf, told AFP that the arrests were carried out on Friday (08/07/2011) night around Kuala Lumpur. Police said the protest was illegal, warned of chaos in the streets.
"They were detained primarily an unauthorized meeting in various places in the capital," Ramli said, adding there was no crackdown in detention. He said the police personnel were checking the documents they withheld it.
Ramli did not provide further details about the arrests, but a reporter saw a group of protesters brought in a police truck near a mosque in Taman Merdeka in the middle of the city.
A police car with siren into the narrow streets near the mosque warned people not to congregate in large groups, with about 20 police officers on foot to help carry out the order.
About 300 people gathered in a railway station which was dissolved by the police shouted at the merea to leave, said an AFP photographer.
There was some bickering and screaming when a number of those who take the fight put into police cars, said the photographer was.
Previously conducted last arrest, about 230 people detained since June 25, including six people under security laws that allow detention are harsh without trial.
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