| | 8:00:18AM March proceeds along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman. |
 | 8:00:32AM March proceeds. |
 | 8:01:01AM
March proceeds in front of SOGO shopping complex. |
 | 8:01:34AM
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 | 8.01.51AM
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 | 8:02:26AM
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 | 8:02:59AM
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 | 8:03:51AM March still proceeding peacefully. |
 | 8:05.24AM Three police officers stand in the path of the marchers. |
 | 8:06:08AM Police officer declares the march an illegal assembly. Latheefa and other lawyers negotiate. |
 | 8:06:19AM Police officer gives 10 minutes to disperse. Latheefa and lawyers immediately agree without further negotiation. [This makes the deadline to disperse to be 8:16:19AM] |
 | 8:06:30AM March continues. |
 | 8:07:20AM |
 | 8:08:32AM |
 | 8:09:12AM March remains peaceful. |
 | 8:11:07AM Marchers enter into Jalan Tun Perak. |
 | 8:11:27AM Police officers apparently given orders to move in. |
 | 8:11:47AM Group of women police officers begin to run to the head of the march as it reaches the Masjid India LRT station. |
 | 8:11:49AM Charging women police personnel, uniformed and in plains-clothes, nearing the head of the march. |
 | 8:12:10AM Police officers stop the march. Police personnel and photographers make it impossible for the group to move forward. |
 | 8:12:16AM Lawyers at the head ask that they be allowed to continue to walk to the Bar Council premises. Police officers reject their request. |
 | 8:12:22AM Senior police officer engages the lawyers, while the group’s path is still blocked by police. |
 | 8:12:30AM The group is still prevented from moving further. |
 | 8:12:48AM Lawyers ask that they be allowed to continue their march. |
 | 8:14:00AM Senior police officer agrees. |
 | 8:14:15AM Latheefa asks the crowd to move forward and continue the march towards the Bar Council premises behind Central Market. |
 | 8:14:21AM However their path is blocked by the same police personnel who stopped their march earlier. |
 | 8:15:45AM Lawyers Latheefa, Surendran, Eric and Sivrarasa consult the senior police officer on the blocked passage.
Latheefa asks, “Are you arresting me?” Police officer initially says “No”, but answers “Yes” after being asked again. |
 | 8:15:52AM Latheefa asks who else is to be arrested. Police officer points to the nearby lawyers (Sivarasa, Eric, Surendran)..
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 | [Original deadline to disperse expires, at 8:16:19AM]
8:16:50AM Policed officers move in to arrest the lawyers. |
 | 8:17:56AM Latheefa is packed into the police van. |
 | 8:18:07AM Eric Paulsen is packed into the van. |
 | 8:18:20AM Sivarasa arrested. |
 | 8:18:33AM Surendran is packed into the police van. |
 | 8:18:47AM Amer is packed into the police van. |
 | 8:20:35AM Activist Nooraza arrested. |
 | 8:28:09AM The group continues the march to the Bar Council premises. Police do not interrupt, except the loud whirring of their helicopter. |
 | 8:38:55AM But the Bar Council premises looks like it is under siege. |
 | 8:46:54AM The police siege widens to the car park beside the premises (where stalls have been set up for the festival). |
 | 8:51:27AM Edmond and Rajen of the Bar Council negotiate with the senior police officer to remove his officers from the Bar’s rented space in the car park, and also to move out the police car parked there. |
 | 8:52:02AM The police officer agrees. The police personnel leave the rented space. |
 | 8:52:09AM Followed by the police car. |
 | 8:54:27AM Rajen of the Bar Council announces that the Bar’s Human Rights Festival is about to start and asks the people to move into the auditorium. |
 | 9:44:09AM The Human Rights Festival proceeds as scheduled and ends before lunch.
About 11.30am: Edmond is arrested after trying to prevent DBKL from taking down posters and banners in front of the Bar Council’s premises. |
| Conclusion: A simple march would have ended peacefully if our country recognizes fundamental human rights, especially on an occasion to celebrate World Human Rights Day. |
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