Recording cops in action is not a crime - Bar president

Recording police conducting a raid is not a crime, said Malaysian Bar president Salim Bashir.

He said this in response to the arrest of student activist Wong Yan Ke who recorded an incident when the police raided fellow activist Robin Yap Wen Qing's home in Petaling Jaya yesterday.

Police were investigating a statement made by the UM Association of New Youth (Umany) under the Sedition Act and Communications and...