The Home Ministry had received information from the police regarding the "Black 14" rally which is scheduled to be held this Saturday at the vicinity of the National Mosque.

The ministry's Parliamentary Secretary, Abu Zahar Isnin, said the police had identified certain groups that will try to cause havoc during the rally to commemorate the first anniversary of sacked deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim's six-year prison sentence.

"Usually peaceful rally will turn violent when the speakers give fiery speeches to instigate protesters," said Zahar, who is former chief minister of Malacca.

However, KeAdilan Youth Chief Mohamad Ezam Mohd.Nor denied the allegation. He said, based on previous occasions, the trouble did not occur until the police started it.

"Does inviting people to pray and congregate peacefully with the intent to uphold justice contravene the Islamic principles?" Ezam told malaysiakini when asked to comment on the statement made by Azhari Othman, the first imam of the National Mosque that the rally will taint the holiness of the mosque.

He added that the iman was given a wrong perception because of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's negative statements about the rally. Furthermore, it will be a short and peaceful rally, according to Ezam.

Ezam said supporters are forbidden to carry any objects that may be misconstrued as weapons.

In another development, a reformasi supporter, Mohd Junus Ibrahim was ordered to be detained for four days to assist the investigation into the "rioting" case at Kg. Baru, Kuala Lumpur in mid-November 1998.

He was brought to the magistrate court this morning after being detained for a day in Dang Wangi police station's lock-up.

Junus was arrested in front of the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters in Jalan Hang Tuah yesterday afternoon while waiting with 50 other reformasi supporters for KeAdilan president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who was being interrogated by the police.