66 SUHAKAM Report of Public Inquiry into the Incidents During and After the Public Assembly of 28 April 2012 Confiscation of Equipment 5.51 The Panel finds that there was confiscation of equipment during the assembly. According to Arshad bin Abas W5, his mobile phone, watch, bluetooth headset, Samsung tablet and pen drive were confiscated by the police personnel who assaulted him. 5.52 Koh Jun Lin (W16) told the Panel that the police took away his camera and media tag when he was arrested at the intersection of Jalan Raja Laut and Jalan Tun Perak. Subsequently, the police officer returned his camera to him outside the Royal Selangor Club. However, the memory card from his camera was confiscated as allegedly it was required by his superior officer as evidence. Arrests at the Premises 5.53 The Panel finds that participants were also arrested while they were inside certain premises, such as hotels and restaurants. It would appear to the Panel from the following testimonies, that police personnel entered restaurants and hotels to look for participants who were involved in the assembly and to arrest them. The Panel is of the opinion that the arrests took place when the participants had already left the scene of the assembly and were possibly planning to return home or to the hotels where they were registered as guests. 5.54 Based on the testimony of Hee Jenn Wei (W21), he left the assembly and walked to Citin Hotel, where he had checked in earlier as a guest, and while in the hotel lobby, he was arrested and taken by the police to Dataran Merdeka. 5.55 Selamat bin Abdul Hamid (W30) testified that a group of police entered the lobby of the Swiss Hotel and started to slap and kick the participants there. W30 was then arrested by the police. 5.56 Zaidatul Akhmar binti Zainon (W24), then an employee of A & W restaurant, had testified before the Panel that police personnel who were in plain clothes entered the A&W restaurant and ordered the participants, who were inside the restaurant, to take off their yellow T-shirts. 5.57 The Panel also viewed a video recording (ID 12) where police personnel were seen entering a restaurant and proceeding to abuse the patrons there. 5.58 The Panel notes that no justifications or explanations were given by PDRM with regard to the arrests made by the police inside the hotels and restaurants or the reason for their conduct and behaviour.