Bersih 2.0 said leaders from six NGOs and political parties that are members of the coalition for free and fair elections, were summoned by the police for questioning.

NONE The six are Bersih 2.0 chief Ambiga Sreenevasan, steering committee member Maria Chin Abdullah, Selangor senior exco Teresa Kok, social activist Hishamuddin Rais, Lawyers for Liberty cordinator Fadiah Nadwa Fikri and Party Socialist Malaysia secretary-general S Arutchelvan.

According to Maria (right), a police officer from Kuala Lumpur's Criminal Investigation Department sent an SMS yesterday asking them to go to the Dang Wangi district police headquarters for their statements to be taken.

Among the six, Maria was to be the first to meet with the police at 2pm today, while Ambiga was to follow half an hour later. Meanwhile, Kok and Fadiah were to see the police on Monday.

However approaching noon, Ambiga in a SMS said that the said meetings at 2pm has been called off.

“Meeting with police postponed, so far I don't know when is the new date,” she added in a subsequent SMS.

Ambiga later told Malaysiakini that the six Bersih leaders would be meeting the police at 2.30pm on Monday.

Want to meet cops together, not separately

Maria said that while Bersih will cooperate with the police investigation, she is against six of its leaders being be picked out and forced to provide their statement one at a time.

"That is not good, not after the way the police had acted yesterday," she explained.

Maria was referring to a Bersih roadshow in Shah Alam last night where one was arrested, as well as the arrest of seven PSM activists in Kluang, Johor.

NONE The six were distributing leaflets on the mammoth rally planned in Kuala Lumpur on July 9.

                  

Early this morning, Bersih made the decision to delay its meeting with the police, but they have yet to discuss it with the police.

"There is no need for us to meet the police immediately. We want to go as one group, rather than being singled out," she told Malaysiakini.

Despite clampdown, roadshows to go on

Maria said the SMSes they received said that the police probe was in relation to the Bersih 2.0 launch last Sunday.

"All of us are under investigation, but we not sure what offence we had committed," she lamented.

Maria also said that another nine roadshows would be held across the country in the lead-up to the July 9 rally.

"(Despite the clampdown), the roadshows will go on as planned," she vowed.