Eight student activists who were scheduled to speak at 8 pm on Sunday the 9th November at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah on student autonomy were barred from the campus by the administration. Anti-riot police were stationed at the gate. They were arrested by police, for the second time within the day, and taken to the Karamunsing police station to have their statements taken. Apparently, they were not informed why they were being arrested. Universiti Malaya student leader Fahmi Zainol confirmed the arrests in a media update. Besides Fahmi, the others arrested were from Universiti Teknologi Mara, one student; UMS Kota Kinabalu, three students; and UMS Labuan, three students. The UMS website posted a notice that the power supply at the university would be shut off from 9 pm Sun until 8 am Mon for scheduled maintenance works. UMS' student representative council president Mohd Al-Farid Abraham appealed in a sms to students to stay away from Fahmi's talk. "UMS is a harmonious campus and we don't want our campus to be marred by the demonstration culture, like what happened at Universiti Malaya several days ago that caused the main gate to be breached," said Mohd Al-Farid. "Therefore, I urge all students to focus on their studies and to understand that mid-terms are still going on. Let us together maintain the harmony of our campus." Earlier in the day, Kota Kinabalu police chief Assistant Commissioner M. Chandra confirmed that ten university students were detained at noon after they turned part of the Sunday Fair area along Jalan Gaya in the Sabah capital into an impromptu Speaker's Corner. Their detention, according to Chandra, was to enable police to record their particulars and take statements from them. He did not say what laws they had broken. The police stepped in as the students, led by Fahmi, were publicly complaining about the Universiti Malaya administration. The undergraduates also distributed pamphlets on academic freedom and the Sedition Act. Pro-Mahasiswa national chairperson Abdul Muqit Muhammad who was one of three released almost immediately said in a media update that the other seven students were taken by police for a urine test. "After giving our speech at Gaya Street, the police took us to "visit' the Kota Kinabalu police station," Fahmi wrote on Facebook at about 1pm on Sun. He had earlier posted that the student activists would visit Gaya Street, a must stop for tourists visiting Kota Kinabalu, before a student rally at Universiti Sabah Malaysia tonight. "Spot the hidden item," he added, tongue in cheek, of a picture of a police truck along Gaya Street.