. As they did not find the evidence they were looking for, they took my flip flops and my hair band as evidence. I was taken to the office, and again in court the following day, I did not plead guilty but I was told that there would have to be a trial in relation to this incident, in addition to the trial relating to my third arrest. By this time, I was in communication with KRYSS (an NGO working with the LGBTI community in Malaysia) having met them only a few days earlier. They found a Syariah lawyer to represent me at the trial relating to the third arrest. The Syariah lawyer convinced the court to combine the trials for the third and fourth arrests, and then sought a postponement. Our strategy is to postpone my trial in the Syariah court until after the leave hearing for the judicial review case has taken place. Linda: I have been arrested twice. The first time was in 2005. It was night-time in the AST area and I was caught by three men. I was with another friend and they started to chase both of us. I tripped, but my friend managed to run. I fell down, but instead of helping me up, they stepped on me to keep me on the ground. They acted like they are above God. In Islam, there should be no compulsion. You should only provide advice, but not force people to do things. I was taken to the office of the Religious Department. They did not take a statement from me straight away, but they kept me and another three of my friends in overnight. Only in the morning did they take our statements. It seemed that they were not carrying out the proper process, but rather they were just making fun of us and ridiculing us. They did not seem to want to teach us a lesson, but rather to mock us. On the second occasion, I was picked up by three religious officers in a white van. They just picked me up from the street and took me on a joyride, asking me questions the whole time. They asked me to remove my clothes and they tried to grope my breasts. After some time, they dropped me off at the top of a hill and I was forced to walk home alone in the dark. The officers who picked me up were not actually on duty, which was why they did not arrest me. They just took me for a ride to mock me and to take advantage of their position of authority