00:01The Kuala Lumpur court complex was an unusual sight on Friday.
00:05A group of 34 men who stormed a karaoke center in Taman Shamalin last Sunday
00:09were brought in on police trucks to face charges.
00:12Standing before Magistrate Faizanur Hassan,
00:14they admitted to participating in a riot while armed at the KTV at 7.30pm on April 5th.
00:21The charge, under Section 148 of the Penal Code,
00:25carries a maximum of five years in prison, a fine or both.
00:30Prosecutor Noor Fahana Mohammad Poad urged the court to consider the scale of the incident,
00:34involving more than three dozen individuals,
00:37and to impose a sentence that would serve as a deterrent.
00:40However, defense lawyer Mohammad Arifin Abdul Wahab,
00:44who represented all 34 accused, asked the court for a lenient sentence,
00:48arguing that the guilty pleas had saved court time
00:51and that this was a first offense for all involved.
00:5432 of the accused, aged between 21 and 57,
00:57were each fined 3,000 ringgit, or four months in jail if they failed to pay.
01:02The remaining two, aged 19, were dealt with as young offenders
01:06and fined 2,000 ringgit each, in default of three months' imprisonment.
01:10If they weren't, they'd rest at the end of the evening of open door building.
01:12That's a big problem.
01:15They were the second one.
01:25The fave of a
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