The police have rejected the third attempt by lawyers to gain access to the six Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) activists detained under the Emergency Ordinance 1969 (EO).

Lawyer Edmund Bon (left) told Malaysiakini this morning that the police rejected their request to meet with the detainees today.

"Police rejected our visit at 2.30pm today," he said in a text-message.
Bon confirmed that the lawyers will file habeas corpus applications tomorrow to have the detainees released, despite failing to get them to sign their respective affidavits.

The lawyers will have to get the family members to file affidavits for the applications, which the government could challenge in court.

PSM supporters and lawyers first tried to meet the six on Saturday when they were arrested but were told by the police that they could only do so on Monday.

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