Can't write much about this incident as I was not involved.
However, found a few news article on this. Here's one.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22897622-12335,00.htmlMalaysian police halt rights march
From correspondents in Kuala Lumpur | December 10, 2007
MALAYSIAN police halted an annual human rights march overnight as the government stepped up a crackdown on street demonstrations and extended its arrest of opposition politicians who had taken part in them.
The government has banned all public demonstrations not authorised by the police, saying they could jeopardise internal security, but opposition groups accuse it of political repression ahead of possible early elections.
Police ordered about 60 people, including a dozen lawyers, to disperse this morning after they defied official warnings and marched in Kuala Lumpur on the eve of international Human Rights Day, behind a banner that said: Lawyers for Freedom of Assembly.
"We have definitely made our point and it shows how ridiculous the government and the police are in this overwhelming show of force, which is completely unnecessary," lawyer Jonson Chong said after police broke up the procession and arrested eight people.
Opposition and rights groups later said police had arrested two opposition politicians elsewhere in the country for joining a rally of about 10,000 people in the capital early last month, the biggest anti-government protest in a decade.
A senior member of the opposition Islamist party PAS was arrested on the day of his daughter's wedding, while the information chief for the party of de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was arrested after addressing a human rights forum, the groups said.
"If the government believes its actions will frighten us from exercising our fundamental right to assemble peacefully, they are sorely mistaken," Anwar's Keadilan party said in a statement overnight headed: "Crackdown will not deter future mass action".
But Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who political analysts expect to call a general election before the end of March, said unauthorised demonstrations would be dealt with according to law.
"They are not our culture," state news agency Bernama quoted him as saying today, referring to the string of protests.
Street protests are illegal in Malaysia unless sanctioned by police, and police typically tolerate demonstrations only if they are against foreign governments such as the United States.
Large anti-government protests are rare, but last month Malaysia was rocked by two of the biggest in a decade. More than 20,000 people rallied in support of electoral reform and the rights of minority ethnic Indians.
The protest by ethnic Indians was especially unsettling for the government because it focused on the sensitive and potentially explosive issue of race relations.
The government has accused the organiser, a Hindu rights group, of terrorist links and has threatened to use internal security laws against it, which would give it the power to detain people indefinitely without charge.
Ethnic Indians make up about 7 per cent of Malaysia's population and protesters complained that they were being marginalised by the government, a multiracial coalition dominated by politicians from the ethnic Malay majority.
