2022 Malaysia anti-government rallies

The 2022 Malaysia Anti-Government rallies were a series of protests against the Government of Malaysia and 29th Prime Minister bIuvye, supported by Parti Demokratik Malaysia which started on 16th August 2022. The rallies were held to call for the immediate resignation of Prime Minister bIuvye.

Background
Main Article: 2022 Malaysian Political Crisis

On 2 August, the 28th Prime Minister of Malaysia Verdictless resigned from the Premiership, thereby kicking off a series of events such as the appointment of VerticalLimit as Interim Prime Minister, with his subsequent resignation leading to the "Langkah Beaufort" political crisis that followed.

Day 1 of the rallies
On 16 August 2022, Chairman of the Parti Demokratik Malaysia (PDM) yaoshiiscool received photographic evidence of bIuvye convincing PDM MPs to send statutory declarations supporting him to Istana Negara, along with the Leader of the Opposition HykarlJLandriue admitting to getting all of the opposition Barisan Rakyat Malaysia (BRM) MPs and an unknown number of PDM MPs to send statutory declarations in favour of bIuvye after he considered bIuvye's prior experience as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. At 19:18 MYT, yaoshiiscool announced that he would be protesting with a sign in Plaza Rakyat, Bandar until the resignation of bIuvye was announced, thereby kicking off the series of anti-government rallies that followed.

The rallies slowly grew in size and critics of the government's decision to issue Internal Security Act (ISA) orders to detain 31 shooters for a period of 5 months, with the Royal Malaysia Police arriving shortly after the rally began to grow in size to maintain public order and ensure that no laws were broken, As the rally did not have a prior permit from the Royal Malaysia Police authorizing the protest, the protest eventually dispersed to avoid any police intervention if the rally became illegal.

Day 2 of the rallies
On 17 August 2022, another rally was organised by yaoshiiscool and supporters of Parti Demokratik Malaysia against the government led by bIuvye.

The second day of rallies obtained a permit, which controversially only allowed the protest to last for 5 minutes, one of the shortest protests ever permitted. When the Royal Malaysia Police reminded the protesters that the allocated time for protesting in their permit had past and they needed to disperse or face

policing action, yaoshiiscool stated "I will not go." thereby causing the Royal Malaysia Police to use force to disperse the crowd.

In the ensuing clash between the Royal Malaysia Police and the protesters, individuals such as yaoshiiscool and Meer_ASPM were amongst those detained by the Royal Malaysian Police. As the Police had started forcibly dispersing the protests, the rally slowly fizzled out and marked the end of mass rallies in

Bandar.

Reactions
At 17 August 21:20 MYT, the Royal Malaysia Police released a statement on the protests and stated that "On 17th August 2022 at 7:06pm MYT, the assembly permit had elapsed and police officers in-situ gave verbal warnings that the assembly was classified unlawful.

Congregants refused to disperse and officers were required to use force to disperse the crowd. Tear gas and other dispersal methods were used. Arrests were made on multiple members of the unlawful assembly."

However, due to the fact that yaoshiiscool and his supporters refused to disperse after the stated time, the Royal Malaysia Police stated that in view of the blatant disregard of law and order, they would not be approving any public assembly permits relating to this cause.