Activist Mohd Ali Baharom, better known as Ali Tinju, was arrested under the Sedition Act today for making an incendiary speech to a mob outside Low Yat Plaza in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday night.
Police sources have confirmed his arrest to The Malaysian Insider.
Ali, who is also Armed Forces Veterans Association president, was detained at the Dang Wangi police station at 11.30am today where he had been summoned to give a statement.
He has been detained under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act.
Ali was earlier named by the police at a press conference today as one of those to be arrested over brawls outside Low Yat on Sunday night, which followed the theft of a handphone by a youth the day before.
The mob that gathered purportedly went to seek revenge for the youth's arrest in the incident that became highly racialised.
Police classified the case as theft and said they would act against those who used social media to spread lies and sow racial hatred.
- TMI
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