Strip search video scandal rocks Malaysia ('Malaysia's Abu Ghraib')

[Barrett808]

Strip search video scandal rocks Malaysia
By Connie Levett Herald Correspondent in Bangkok and agencies
November 28, 2005

A POLICE abuse scandal sparked by a short phone video clip of a Chinese woman, stripped naked and forced to do "ear squats", is being called Malaysia's Abu Ghraib.

Malaysia is now in full damage control as it tries to contain diplomatic fallout with China, the most important emerging power in the region, shortly before the East Asia Summit.

The scandal comes after a series of recent allegations of harassment, including strip searches, of young Chinese women in Malaysia by police and immigration officials.

It also adds weight to claims that Chinese are being targeted and profiled.

The one-minute, 11-second clip starts with a female police officer ordering a naked Chinese woman, possibly in her 20s, to do the squats while holding her ears. The footage, taken on a mobile phone, appears to have been shot through a window without either woman's knowledge.

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/strip-search-video-scandal-rocks-malaysia/2005/11/27/1133026346461.html

[berni_mccoy]

1. Torture is on the March!

The U.S. still seems to retain it's influence, despite losing every other power/super power (this is from the post earlier this weekend titled "Superpower?").

[warrens]

4. *sniff* It just makes me so damn PROUD of my country...

I'm going to start crying here...I guess this will shut up those damn lieberals who think we've lost our moral leadership in the world.

[mbperrin]

2. Danged pesky technology...

just lets anybody at all show what's really happening at anytime..
Don't you just hate empowering individuals when you've spent all that money buying corporate media?

Well, OK, then.

[AX10]

3. Maylasian Cops = PIGS