KUALA LUMPUR: Thousands of Malaysians streamed into central Kuala Lumpur on Saturday to call for the prime minister’s ouster over corruption allegations and demand broader reforms, spurning warnings by police who have declared the rally illegal.

Ordinary citizens converged on the capital’s historic heart, many of them defiantly wearing the yellow t-shirts — banned by the government — of Malaysia’s leading pro-reform movement for the beginning of a planned two-day rally.

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