Sabah anti-graft rally: Student group slams police, PM over sedition probe
In a statement, student activist group Suara Mahasiswa UMS claimed that police summoned the trio to the Kota Kinabalu district police headquarters over a report that one of them had lodged about an acid attack, which saw several cars damaged during the rally over the weekend.
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