The Red Pencil protest was a rally that was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by media personnel, activists and other supporters on 4 January 2014.
[2][3] The police were monitoring the protests, even though they did not give permission to the organisers to gather in the event as required under Peaceful Assembly Act 2012.
[4] Around 100 to 200[5] protestors gathered around the Bar Council offices in Kuala Lumpur and began marching to Masjid Jamek LRT station.
[6][7] Observers include Bersih, Ambiga Sreenevasan and social activist Datuk Paduka Marina Mahathir.
[8] At the station the protestors began shouting slogans calling for freedom of the press and made their demands cleared, as well as symbolically breaking a red pencil.