Police arrested over 70 Falun Gong followers in Kuala Lumpur prior to the arrival of China president Xi Jinping last month, in an alleged preventive action to silence the dissenters of the Chinese Communist Party leader.

In interviews with Malaysiakini, several of the detainees - who were released only after Xi left the country - said they were scooped up by plainclothes officers who raided the group's meeting at a shop lot in Cheras on April 13.