Apart from the 12, others were also arrested.
‘I went through many different emotions during this period as one of the people that was lifted in the raids … I spent 3 days in police custody in my under wear deprived of sleep being questioned at all hours … I was very bitter at what was happening to us; the two high points for me were the meeting in the Arcadian cinema where some 8 to 900 people from the community attended this meeting. This … was the first time so many Asians came out to a rally … it was AYM that raised the issue in the community. We could not sit back and let this happen to our boys.’
Anwar Qadir