LIVE REPORTS
8.15pm: Dataran Merdeka - The policemen are seen having their dinner and chatting after the arrests have come to an end.
The last man rounded up by the police is Bersih committee member Wong Chin Huat, who is hauled up the police truck around 7.30pm.
7.30pm: The police say that as of 7pm, 222 have been arrested.
6.55pm: Masjid Jamek - Police shoot tear gas in Masjid Jamek area to disperse the protesters who are still there.
6:55pm: Jalan Tun Perak-Jalan Parlimen - Scores of traffic police officers arrive on their motorbikes.
The police officers are seen ‘ambushing’ the protesters. Many of those arrested appear injured with bleeding nose and head. One of the protesters is sent in an ambulance to the hospital.
6.53pm: Masjid Jamek - After the police have a brief meeting, they begin a mass arrest of the remaining protestors.
A man who is on his bike is kicked by the police and later pulled down by the police and dragged to the FRU truck.
6.45pm: Dataran Merdeka - Police at Dataran are going all out to catch the protesters around Jalan TAR and Jalan Tun Perak, some protesters are bleeding after being arrested by police.
6.25pm: Masjid Jamek - FRU trucks were deployed to control situation at Masjid Jamek.
6:24pm: Jln Tun Perak - At the Jln Parliament junction a large number of protestors are still gathered, taunting the over 1,000 policemen present, who retaliate by chasing them in a cat and mouse game.
6.22pm: Jln Sultan Abdul Samad - Malaysiakini witnesses a delegation of police special forces ferrying KL mayor Ahmad Fuad Ismail in one of their cars.
The convoy is forced to U-turn near Masjid Jamek when met with a hostile reception from protestors, who throw shoes and objects at them. Windows of two cars are smashed in the process.
6pm: Jln TAR - Hundreds of police are at Jln TAR, that is congested because of the roadblocks. Motorists sound their horns continuously, forcing the police to disperse and regroup at the Jln Tun Perak junction. They begin to allow traffic through.
5.50pm: Batu MP Tian Chua and Prof Dr Abdul Aziz Bari, former law lecturer, have been arrested.
"Now I'm arrested, police hit us as we were dragged thru rows of rowdy officers - many got beaten up after arrested," says a tweet posting from Chua.
5.45pm: Masjid Jamek - Some protesters still wanted to push into Dataran Merdeka, but the police return and give chase. A number of protesters are arrested. Some of the protesters throw shoes and bottles at the police.
5.34pm: Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said that the lost police pistol has been found. He tweets:
"2 policemen injured & admitted. Snatched police pistol was recovered."
5.26pm: Jalan TAR, in front of Sogo - Police are seen to be checking the overturned car.
5.15pm: Intersection of Jalan Tun HS Lee and Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, near CIMB Bank - PAS Unit Amal (security unit) is making its rounds urging the remaining protesters to disperse.
Meanwhile in thousands are still gathered in front of Masjid Jamek. They gather along Jalan Tun Perak, facing off a few police trucks.
They shout "Bersih, Bersih", but the police trucks suddenly make a U-turn and head back to Dataran Merdeka. The crowd claims victory.
5:13pm: Jalan TAR - The situation in Jalan TAR appears to be calm after a FRU truck retreated. There is no police presence along the road from Maju Junction to Pertama Complex.
Some of the protesters could be seen heading back towards Dataran Merdeka.
The area in front of Bar Council building is now deserted as most of the protesters have dispersed.
But there are still protesters in two main areas - from Masjid Jamek to Dataran Maybank and those in Jalan TAR.
5.12pm: Jalan Pudu, near Dataran Maybank - The back window of a car was shattered, with the protesters saying that it was caused by a tear gas canister fired by FRU.
5.00pm: Detainees are being held at the Police Training Centre (Pulapol) in Kuala Lumpur.
4.55pm: Masjid Jamek - Hundreds of people are trapped inside the Masjid Jamek mosque. Police have blocked the entrance to the mosque compound.
4.50pm: According to an official post on the police Facebook page, a pistol was stolen during a melee near the Sogo shopping mall.
"The public is advised to be cautious of any eventualities," read the post.
4.30pm: Jln Petaling - Close to Pasar Raya 1 Supermart seven policemen apprehend and stomp on a protestor.
4.27pm: Dataran Maybank - Angry protesters throw empty water bottles at a passing police van.
4:23pm: Jalan TAR - A police vehicle allegedly hits two protestors in front of Sogo shopping centre, injuring them.
An angry crowd surrounds the police car and overturns the vehicle.
4.21pm: Masjid Jamek - A man faints near Masjid Jamek and he is helped by the Bersih medical team as well as PAS Unit Amal, who carried him to HSBC bank beside the river for treatment.
Both the Bersih medical team and the government’s Jabatan Pertahanan Awam (Public Defence Department) attend to the man while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
4.20pm: Petaling Street - Police fire water cannons in the direction of protestors at Jln Petaling and Jln HS Lee. The protestors run helter skelter but continue shouting “Bersih” at the cops near them.
4:10pm - Jalan TAR - A group of protesters sit along the closed Jalan TAR road. An ice-cream seller is doing a roaring business as protesters seek to quench their thirst.
FRU fire chemical-laced water at them in front of Kamdar department store along Jalan TAR.
4.04pm: Earlier, a number of reporters standing behind the FRU get pushed by the police towards the protestors while tear gas is being fired, exposing them to the acrid gas.
3.58pm: A 35-year-old man suffers difficulty in breathing near Dataran Maybank from the tear gas attacks. He recovers after a medical team attends to him.
3.58pm: Masjid Jamek - Hundreds of protestors are resting at the park behind Masjid Jamek to recover from the water cannon and tear gas attacks.
3.51pm: Bar Council - Bersih steering committee member Andrew Khoo says:
“This is unwarranted, escalated violence. The crowd is very peaceful, a lot of people are just coming to take photographs.
"This is very unnecessary aggressive behaviour and I wholly condemn the violence.”
3.49pm: Jalan Raja Laut - About 35 protesters arrested in front of the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) building.
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