A female participant of the Bersih 3.0 rally on April 28 claimed that police fired a tear gas canister at her from about 10 metres away.
Pang Choy Wan, 27, said the incident happened along Jalan Yap Ah Loy while she was attempting to disperse from the rally.
“The distance between me and the police was just about 10 metres,” said Pang when met after she had lodged a police report at the Petaling Jaya district police headquarters.
“My mother had to hold me up because I could not walk after being shot. The bruise took a week to heal,” she said.
Pang added than at the time, there were elderly people within the vicinity that were trying to escape.
Another individual who lodged a police at the same police station, Abdul Razib Abu, 45, claimed he was assaulted by between eight to ten police personnel on the same day.
He said that the incident happened he passed the Dang Wangi district police headquarters on a motorcycle on the way home.
He said that the assault happened while he was still on the motorcycle and that his bag was searched while his motorcycle side-mirror was damaged.
Pang and Abdul Razib were accompanied to the police station by Bersih steering committee member Maria Chin Abdullah and lawyer Fadiah Nadwa Fikri.
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