KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 – About 200 people who including lawyers and media activists following the ‘Assembly 808’ around the Central Market on Saturday, which was organized to protest the three months suspension of the newspaper The Edge. The participants gathered in front of the Central Market around 10:30 am before moving in droves with banners ‘Media not the enemy “and” Journalism is not a crime’ to Dataran Lebuh Pasar which in front of the Malaysian Bar Council.
However, the assembly for an hour half have been calmed and controlled by police force. Also seen CEO Foundation Global Movement of Moderates (GMM) Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua and former Bar Council president Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan. Permit issuance that The Edge Weekly and The Edge Financial Daily suspended for three months with effect from July 27 that had report on the issues which related to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
