Red Shirts leader Jamal Yunos remanded four days

Chairman of the Red Movement NGO Coalition Malaysia (GNGMM) Datuk Seri Jamal Md Yunos and two of his followers were remanded for four days from today.

The order was obtained in the Ampang Magistrate's court here and Magistrate Mohd Izwan Mohd Noh also issued a remand order on two of the NGO's activists, Ariffin Abu Bakar and Abdul Razak.

The Red Movement counsel Datuk Mohd Imran Tamrin said all the three individuals were remanded to assist in investigations under Section 147/186/353 of the Penal Code.

"I would like to inform that at 1.30 am today Datuk Seri Jamal was arrested by a police team from the Selangor police contingent headquarters in connection with the commotion incident in Ampang Point on November 13.

"Two others were also arrested, namely (Red) NGO coalition activists Ariffin Abu Bakar and Abdul Razak," he told reporters here today.

All three of them were brought to the lockup at the Shah Alam district police headquarters. -- BERNAMA