‘Authorities tried to intimidate us’

At loggerheads: File picture showing Kelantan Forestry Department officers dismantling the blockade at Matau Cawas, while Too (inset) was detained.

PETALING JAYA: Two freelance journalists covering an orang asli blockade in Kelantan claim they were intimidated and threatened by 20-odd state forestry officials during an operation there.

Jules Rahman Ong, 46, said he and Too Chee Hung, 36, were surrounded by more than 20 forestry officers on Tuesday morning at the Matau Cawas blockade near Gua Musang.