Section 141 of the Penal Code: Unlawful Assembly

*This is the provision under the Malaysian Law which, I feel, relates to the notion of Free Hugs.

CHAPTER VIII
OFFENCES AGAINST THE PUBLIC TRANQUILLITY

141.Unlawful assembly.
An assembly of five or more persons is designated an “unlawful assembly”, if the common object of the persons composing that assembly is-
(a)to overawe by criminal force, or show of criminal force, the Legislative or Executive Government of Malaysia or any State, or any public servant in the exercise of the lawful power of such public servant;
(b)to resist the execution of any law, or of any legal process;
(c)to commit any mischief or criminal trespass, or other offence;
(d)by means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to any person, to take or obtain possession of any property, or to deprive any person of the enjoyment of a right of way, or of use of water or other incorporeal right of which he is in possession or enjoyment, or to enforce any right or supposed right; or
(e)by means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to compel any person to do what he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do what he is legally entitled to do.

Explanation
An assembly which was not unlawful when it assembled may subsequently become an unlawful assembly.

142.Being a member of an unlawful assembly.
Whoever, being aware of facts which render any assembly an unlawful assembly, intentionally joins that assembly, or continues in it, is said to be a member of an unlawful assembly.

143.Punishment.
Whoever is a member of an unlawful assembly, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.