Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) Youth vice chief Shazni Munir was arrested this afternoon, believed to be detained over a protest at the Election Commission headquarters in Putrajaya on May 23.

Following his arrest, Shazni tweeted that he was being taken to the Putrajaya district police headquarters.

Contacted later, a police spokesperson confirmed that Shazni has been detained.

“He is still at the police station. We will issue a statement when we are done with questioning him,” the spokesperson said.

According to a posting on Amanah's Facebook page, Shazni (photo) was detained about 12.20pm.

The posting stated that Shazni had informed the party that the police would come to Wisma Amanah Negara in Kuala Lumpur to record his statement.

“However, three police officers arrived at noon and said they had come to arrest him. The police disclosed that Shazni was arrested under Section 341 of the Penal Code,” the statement said.

Section 341 concerns wrongful restraint, and those found guilty are liable to a prison term that may extend to one month, a fine of RM1,000 or both.

During the protest, which involved the youth and women's wings of Pakatan Harapan parties, protesters had chained and locked the gates leading to the EC headquarters.

This was done when no representative from the commission showed up to meet the group.

EC also lodged a police report

The protesters were urging the EC to lift the decision to no longer provide draft electoral rolls to the public.

At a press conference earlier today, EC chief Hashim Abdullah confirmed that the commission had lodged police report on the same day.

EC lodged the report as it was threatened, Hashim said.

"We lodged the report on the same day. We have to remember when (we) were threatened, or (we were) deemed to be threatened.

"It is important that we lodged the report. If anything happens to you, you have to lodge a report," he added.

He said the lock and the chain were brought by the protesters, even if they might deny it.

"If they say they did not do it intentionally, that's not true. EC did not give the lock and chain to them. Meaning, they had wanted to lock and chain the gate," Hashim added.

He said he was also puzzled that the Amanah members staged the protest.

"They came to show us the picture of the addresses and empty houses, claiming that no one resided at the houses.

"I want to tell you… just go and lodge a petition (on the electoral roll). We cannot take out a voter after he or she registered is as a new voter," he said.