Selangor exco Ronnie Liu from DAP was arrested shortly after midnight today and was apparently 'forced' out of Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim's car that he was riding in.

In the 12.20am incident, several excos had just finished a state ceramah function in Hulu Selangor and were returning to Kuala Lumpur before the police stopped them midway.

ronnie liu arrested by police bersih 020711 According to fellow exco and eyewitness Elizabeth Wong, they were in a convoy of about "eight or nine" cars led by a patrol car on the trunk road in Rawang when the incident took place.

"The patrol car in front of us slowed down and another patrol car sped up from behind us.

"Liu ( left ) who was riding with Khalid, was suddenly put in a patrol car and was taken away without explanation," said Wong, who witnessed the incident from inside her car.

She added that in the ceramah organised by the state government, Liu had spoken earlier but she was unsure of the contents of his speech since she arrived just after he had ended his speech. 

'Liu promoted Bersih rally' 

Khalid later wrote in his Twitter that Liu was arrested because he had asked the people to join the upcoming Bersih 2.0 rally planned for July 9.

NONE The MB ( right ) also tweeted that he was being held at the Serendah police station.

Efforts to reach Liu have been futile.

According to Selangor DAP Youth publicity secretary Lim Swee Kuan, Liu was released at 3.40am on police bail of RM3,000.

Since last Friday, the police have arrested more than 100 people around the country including lawmakers in connection with the Bersih 2.0 rally.

Most of them were arrested because they were wearing the yellow Bersih 2.0 T-shirt.

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein had earlier this week declared the T-shirt illegal since they were "related to an illegal activity".

Wearing yellow not illegal, clarifies top cop

Meanwhile, Bernama reported that Selangor police chief Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah had confirmed the arrest at a press conference after meeting about 150 community leaders at the state police headquarters.

Tun Hisan also clarified that police did not prohibit anyone from wearing yellow-coloured clothes.

What was prohibited, he said, was clothing that carried a symbol of an unregistered organisation, especially if it was linked with planners of the illegal assembly.

Tun Hisan also reminded the public not to take part in the assembly.