KUALA LUMPUR: Police will summon more individuals who were involved in last weekend’s Bersih 4 rally, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said yesterday.

He said police were studying video clips and photographs taken of the 34-hour street demonstration and would decide what action to take.

“If any wrongdoing has been committed, we cannot just let it be.

“We will investigate all unsavoury actions committed,” he told reporters yesterday at an event on global security technology at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

On the incident where individuals had stomped on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s photo and also a photo of PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, Khalid said the police were trying to identify those involved.

He welcomed anyone with information or who knew the individuals to help the police in their investigations.

Khalid was also asked why police did not move in on protestors throughout the 34-hour rally, which ended peacefully before midnight on Sunday.

He said the rally was illegal as the authorities had never approved it.

“But when it started, we were able to manage it, and now we will take the appropriate action after this,” he said.

Lawyers, however, have said that the police were wrong in declaring the rally illegal since there is no law that criminalises peaceful assembly, which is also provided for under the Federal Constitution. — The Malaysian Insider

This article first appeared in digitaledge Daily, on September 4, 2015.