In Melbourne, Australia, the crowd at Federation Square has reached 750, reported the latest tweet from the Bersih Oz Twitter page.The gathering started around 9am local time with around 30 people bearing placards in support of free and fair elections and singing 'Negara Ku'.
By noon the rally was full swing, with Ambiga masks being distributed for the participants to wear.
“Ambiga masks now being distributed, we are all Ambiga!” reads one tweet.
It is reported that the rally has drawn Australian TV coverage. Speakers who have addressed the crowd so far include the member of parliament for Clayton and Sonia Randhawa from the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ).
The rallyers are greeted with friendly police forces.
"The police and Federal Square security greeted us, and commended us for organising a peaceful rally," tweeted one participant.
While in Perth, Australia, 150 Malaysians have reportedly gathered in front of the Malaysian consulate singing, chanting and cheering, and 300 have been reported gathering in Sydney at the Town Hall at around 2pm.
In Adelaide, about 150 people gathered for the city's Bersih event.
Meanwhile in neighbouring New Zealand, a mini rally reportedly kicked off in Christchurch, New Zealand, at the University of Canterbury at around 10.30am local time.
In Seoul, about 30 Malaysians living in South Korea rallied to support a simultaneous protest back home that riot police tried to prevent by firing tear gas and water cannon.
"We demand free and fair elections. Release all detainees," chanted protesters at the Gwanghwamun intersection in the heart of Seoul.
Wearing yellow T-shirts, the protesters, mostly Malaysian students and workers living in the South Korean capital, waved banners and took turns in delivering speeches calling for election reform in Malaysia.
"We strongly condemned the crackdown," Thency Gunasekaran, a spokesperson of Bersih 2.0 Korea, told AFP as the violent events unfolded in Malaysia.
The rally in Seoul was part of a global movement named Bersih ("clean") 2.0.
"The crackdowns that have been happening clearly show that the Malaysian government is very much disregarding very fundamental principles of what a democracy should be," she said.
"They are moving very far away from what a democracy should be."
"We demand free and fair elections. Release all detainees," chanted protesters at the Gwanghwamun intersection in the heart of Seoul.
Wearing yellow T-shirts, the protesters, mostly Malaysian students and workers living in the South Korean capital, waved banners and took turns in delivering speeches calling for election reform in Malaysia.
"We strongly condemned the crackdown," Thency Gunasekaran, a spokesperson of Bersih 2.0 Korea, told AFP as the violent events unfolded in Malaysia.
The rally in Seoul was part of a global movement named Bersih ("clean") 2.0.
"The crackdowns that have been happening clearly show that the Malaysian government is very much disregarding very fundamental principles of what a democracy should be," she said.
"They are moving very far away from what a democracy should be."Elsewhere, rallies in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore (left) and elsewhere are due to start later in the afternoon.
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