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        "msgid": "malaysian-opposition-to-defy-ban-on-meetings-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-06-12 00:00:00",
        "title": "Malaysian opposition to defy ban on meetings",
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        "source": "REUTERS",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Malaysian opposition to defy ban on meetings KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Malaysia's main opposition party vowed yesterday to press ahead with public meetings despite an apparent crackdown by police which led to the arrest of four members. \"We expect more trouble but we will continue having more of such meetings,\" Democratic Action Party (DAP) deputy secretary general Lim Guan Eng told reporters at the party's headquarters on the outskirts of the capital.",
        "content": "<p>Malaysian opposition to defy ban on meetings<\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Malaysia's main opposition party vowed<br>\nyesterday to press ahead with public meetings despite an apparent<br>\ncrackdown by police which led to the arrest of four members.<\/p>\n<p>\"We expect more trouble but we will continue having more of<br>\nsuch meetings,\" Democratic Action Party (DAP) deputy secretary<br>\ngeneral Lim Guan Eng told reporters at the party's headquarters<br>\non the outskirts of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Lim and three other DAP members were arrested by police late<br>\non Wednesday at a political meeting which authorities had banned.<br>\nThe four were released early yesterday morning without being<br>\ncharged.<\/p>\n<p>Police detained Lim, son of DAP secretary general Lim Kit<br>\nSiang and a member of parliament, after he addressed about 2,000<br>\npolitical supporters outside a restaurant in Petaling Jaya town,<br>\nwitnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Lim's supporters scuffled with police, some of whom had<br>\nhelmets, shields and batons, before he and the three others were<br>\ntaken away to local police headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>\"If the government wants to ban political meetings, it must<br>\nsay so instead of doing it in a cowardly manner,\" Lim said<br>\nyesterday.<\/p>",
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