Her arrest under a law designed to combat terrorism sparked international criticism including from the US State Department. Despite her arrest, some 20,000 Malaysians clad in the yellow of the reformist Bersih campaign flooded Kuala Lumpur for the second time in 15 months. They were venting anger over allegations that billions of dollars were stolen from state investment fund 1MDB, Najib's brainchild. Malaysia has been gripped for more than a year by the allegations of looting involving 1MDB, a state investment fund which Najib founded and oversaw. Najib had earlier condemned Bersih's rally as an opposition plot "to unseat a democratically-elected government".

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 28, 2016 11:01 UTC