Justice walk LiveBlog: Crowd begins to disperse, some choose to march back to Bar Council HQ


PETALING JAYA: Members of the Malaysian Bar gather at Padang Merbok on Friday (June 17) ahead of a planned peaceful march to Parliament to uphold judicial independence.

On May 27, the Bar voted, at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), to hold a peaceful protest to uphold judicial independence and to also condemn a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigation against Court of Appeal judge Datuk Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali.

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