The High Court in Kuala Lumpur today rejected the appeal by five undergraduates, who had been expelled by their universities, against their conviction by a lower court for taking part in an illegal assembly outside the National Mosque on June 8, 2001.

They were found guilty of taking part in a rally opposing the Internal Security Act (ISA) by a magistrate’s court on June 18, 2009, and today judge Su Geok Yiam upheld the conviction, for which the five were fined RM3,900 each or three months’ jail.