No law against public recording police raid: Ex-Bar chief

Former Malaysian Bar president Salim Bashir and two law experts concurred there is no law forbidding members of the public from recording a police raid in progress.

Salim as well as lawyers Syed Iskandar Syed Jaafar and Rajsurian Pillai today were responding to the recent detention of three individuals for filming a police raid of a hardcore music gig at a record store in Georgetown, Penang, on Saturday.

The trio was released an hour after the arrest. A fourth person, who is the co-owner of the store, was held for more than 12 hours for not possessing an entertainment licence.

“There are no provisions...