Red Shirts protest outside Malaysiakini's office (Updated)

PETALING JAYA: Only 400 Red Shirt participants turned up for the group's march towards online portal, Malaysiakini's office today.
Red Shirts leader Datuk Seri Jamal Yunos had initially estimated 20,000 protesters will participate in the march.
The participants including underaged boys and women clad in red had gathered along Jalan Tandang here at about 1pm before Jamal arrived at 3.30pm.

Jamal said he did not want to bring a lot of Red Shirt participants to the protest because the online portal's building would definitely be brought down if they had attended.
"We will fight for our intention. I said if we had 20,000 gathered here today, then Malaysiakini's building would definitely be brought down but we are law-abiding citizens, so I have limited the number of participants so as not to reach 20,000," he told the crowd during the gathering.
Jamal called for the closure of the online portal, alleging that the latter had admitted to receiving funding from a foreign party.
He said they were there to protest against the funding allegedly received by Malaysiakini from Open Society Foundation (OSF), a grant-making organisation run by billionaire George Soros.
According to Jamal, Soros was responsible for the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 and funded revolutions in many countries throughout the world.
He said the OSF was trying to meddle in Malaysia's electoral process.
He then urged the protesters to march to the entrance of the building.
Stopping at the barricade set up by police, Jamal said the Red Shirts would not push through but he instead, demanded for Malaysiakini's top management to come out.
However, after his demands were ignored, Jamal ordered his supporters to disperse at about 4.30pm, promising that the group will gather again to counter the Bersih 5 rally on Nov 19.
Meanwhile, heavy police presence, including the Light Strike Force (LSF) personnel managed to deter the Red Shirt protesters from marching directly to the news portal's office at PJ51 Business Park here.
Malaysiakini editor-in-chief Steven Gan applauded the actions taken by the police for maintaining security of the news portal's building and staff.