21.   Those included public disturbance, illegal assembly, criminal use of force and rioting.

22.   Former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge of illegal assembly following his arrest for addressing students at the Northern Technical college last month.

23.   His five colleagues were also charged with illegal assembly and bailed by the court.

24.   Concerns that freedom of assembly and expression were under siege comes after three pro-democracy activists were charged last month for organising an illegal assembly.

25.   They were later charged with incitement to violence and illegal assembly.

26.   Three journalists were arrested and detained for five hours Wednesday after police charged them with illegal assembly under the new law.

27.   They are charged with illegal assembly.

28.   PAS had defied the ban and when police intervened to stop its rallies, a number of party leaders were arrested and charged with holding illegal assemblies.

29.   Police said the protestors would be charged for illegal assembly while Education Minister Najib Tun Razak warned that students involved in the protest could be expelled.

30.   The arrested were suspected of orchestrating support for worker-student rallies and other illegal assemblies.