careful guys.....not sure if this homophobic trend is spreading to the capital of KL, but in Penang this past weekend, police harassed saunas, fitness centers in 4 raids arresting locals, Americans, Europeans and Chinese...
Penang police arrest 70 men at 4 raids By News Editor (fridae.com)
Over the weekend, police raided a massage parlour and three fitness centres and seized used condoms, pornography DVDs, gay magazines, among other things, according to a local news report.
The police in the northern Malaysian state of Penang have arrested 70 men including locals, Americans, Europeans and a Chinese national on Saturday night following a raid at two fitness centres on the mainland, and a massage parlour and fitness centre on the island.
The Star newspaper on Monday published a photograph showing men at Midlands Park being rounded up to be taken to the state contingent police headquarters for questioning.
According to a report in The Star newspaper on Monday, the police had stumbled on the parties while on a “blitz to weed out vice activities” while two of the raids in Seberang Jaya were based on public tip-offs.
The police said they found used condoms, pornography DVDs, gay magazines, lubrication jelly and boxes of condoms at a traditional massage parlour and a fitness centre in Midlands Park and two other fitness centres in Seberang Jaya.
The men, in their 20s and 40s, were arrested and questioned at the state police headquarters in Penang Road or Seberang Jaya district police headquarters before being released on bail.
George Town Deputy OCPD Supt Gan Kong Meng said those arrested will be charged with gross indecency under Section 377D of the Penal Code and face up to two years hail if convicted.
He added that the police had raided the massage parlour and fitness centre five times in the past. It is not clear if the owners of the premises were the organisers of the events as the police is seeking to have the owners charged under Section 292 of the Penal Code for allowing their premises to be used as vice dens, according to the news report.
In two high-profile cases, police raided and arrested 14 men in a fitness and sauna centre in May this year while 37 men were arrested at a “sex party” held at a fitness centre-cum-sauna last Nov. One of the men arrested and detained for two days later was quoted in an article on Fridae that contrary to media reports there was no “sex party” in progress when the police arrived.
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