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Malaysian protesters call for electoral reform
Heavy police presence in Malaysian capital city centre attempts to stop 20,000 protesters from entering Independence Square to demand electoral reform.
Malaysian protesters march toward the heart of the city to demand clean elections
Confronting a police lockdown in Kuala Lumpur, thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets to demand electoral reform, while the city a mess of razor wire and barricades.
Wearing the yellow colours of the reform movement, crowds of people gathered at various points around the capital to defy the ban on a rally at Independence Square in the city centre.
Access to the city centre was hindered by heavy police presence which included 2,000 armed police positioned around the restricted square.
Demonstrators were intent on marching to the square according to Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim but said this would prove difficult with the amount of security.
Some 20,000 protestors had congregated at various locations around the square according to national police spokesman Ramli Yoosuf who called on the protestors to obey the law and stay away from the banned square.
