Police seal off venue of anti-ISA meeting, crowd beaten and dispersed
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More than 100 police officers tonight sealed off the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall in Kuala Lumpur and stopped a planned anti-Internal Security Act meeting from proceeding there.The meeting, organised by the Abolish ISA Movement (AIM), seeks to renew opposition against the ISA in wake of last month's Federal Court decision which ruled that the initial detention of five reformasi detainees was unlawful.
At about 6.30pm, the police ejected 20 people who were already inside the building and they joined 300 others who came later in a three-hour stand-off outside the building.
According to witnesses, the police also took photos of the meeting venue.
When the scheduled meeting was about take place at 8.30pm, 30 riot police armed with batons arrived to bolster the police presence.
When the crowd insisted on entering the building, about 10 people were beaten by the riot police and forced to back away from building.
A number of those clubbed suffered minor injuries.
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