(Aug 28): The Home Ministry has banned yellow clothing, as well as clothes with the words "Bersih 4," and also printed material connected to the rally that is set to take place tomorrow and Sunday in Kuala Lumpur and other cities.

Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi issued this order under the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, which comes into effect today.

The Printing Presses and Publications (Control of Undesirable Publications) (No. 22) Order 2015 lists as "absolutely prohibited throughout Malaysia" the following items:

"Any yellow coloured clothing and which contains the words 'Bersih 4'" and "Any other printed material and pamphlet which leads to Bersih 4 rally".

A copy of the order in a Federal Government Gazette is available online. It was dated Aug 27 and comes into force today.

The order states that the "printing, importation, production, reproduction, publishing, sale, issue, circulation, distribution, or possession" of these items are "likely prejudicial to public order," as well as to security and national interest.

News of the order began circulating this evening, some 12 hours before the rally kicks off in the capital city at 2pm tomorrow.

The rally organiser, electoral reform group Bersih 2.0, this week sold at least 35,000 rally t-shirts and received RM2 million in public donations – a response it described as overwhelming and unprecedented.

The rally's demands this time are for institutional reform, the right to protest, a corruption-free and clean government and political system, and measures to save the economy.

This is the fourth Bersih rally since the first in 2007, and is held at a time when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is under pressure to account for an alleged financial scandal involving Finance Ministry-owned 1Malaysia Development Bhd, as well as a RM2.6 billion political donation that went into his personal bank accounts.

Participants of the rally in Kuala Lumpur are planning to meet at five locations across the city before converging on the streets around Dataran Merdeka, where they plan to stage an overnight camp-out.

Police have declared the rally illegal, but lawyers say there is no law to stop people from gathering peacefully. – The Malaysian Insider