• Police use water cannon to disperse �police abuse� demo, 17 arrested
  • Yap Mun Ching
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  • Police arrested 17 activists for illegal assembly after using chemical-laced water cannon to disperse a crowd, which was gathered there to protest against alleged police abuse of power and brutality.

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