The Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur found 15 activists guilty
of unlawful assembly and rioting during a protest against the 13th general
election results outside the Parliament gates in June 2013.
They include outspoken PKR member Badrul Hisham Saharin,
better known as Chegubard, and activists Anne Ooi, better known as Auntie
Bersih, and Adam Adli Abdul Halim.
Badrul Hisham, and two
activists Adam Adli Abdul Halim and Safwan Anang together with seven other people were fined RM6,000 or nine
months’ jail in default for being participants of an unlawful assembly and
rioting.
The remaining five people were fined RM2,000 or three
months’ jail in default for participating in an unlawful assembly
Sessions Court judge Abdul Rashid Daud found the group
guilty and said the defence had failed to raise reasonable doubt in the
prosecution’s case.
The offences were allegedly committed at Jalan Parlimen on
June 24, 2013, between 9.15am and 11.25am.
The accused where accused with rioting on the road leading
to Parliament.
They were charged under Section 143 and Section 147 of the
Penal Code.
Source from -The Star Online-
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