Auntie Bersih, 14 others fined for unlawful assembly, rioting


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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