MALAYSIA: PANEL TO INVESTIGATE VIDEO SHOWING ABUSE

Kuala Lumpur, 2 Dec. (AKI) - Malaysia has launched an inquiry into a video showing a woman of Chinese origin being humiliated in a Malaysian police station. A five-member independent panel, which includes a retired judge, three members of the government and a lawyer, has been put together to find out the identity of the woman in the video, what had happened to her and also examine the standard operating procedures by the police in Malaysia when conducting a body search. The video shows the woman, who is forced to strip naked, grasp her ears and squat repeatedly while another woman, wearing a Muslim headscarf and dressed in what looked like a police uniform, looks on. The video clip was shown in the lobby of the Malaysian parliament by opposition lawmaker Teresa Kok last week. The other parliamentarians expressed shock and disgust at the footage which appeared to have been shot on a mobile phone. The pictures are accompanied by what appears to be a recording of verses from the Koran being recited, although it is unclear if the recording was audible to the woman. After the video was made public, the Malaysian prime minister Abdullah Badawi ordered an independent inquiry into the matter. The video has shocked the Malaysian public and China has also complained about the footage.Three Chinese women have claimed that while in police detention their money was stolen, they were forced to strip, and were spied on by male officers while they were bathing. However, it is not clear whether the woman in the video is a Chinese national or a Malaysian of Chinese origin. All five in the panel to investigate the incident belong to a commission set up by the prime minister of Malaysia in 2003 to improve the procedures of the police force. One of the panel members, Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari, was quoted in the Malaysian daily The Star as saying that the panel would be able to zero in on the issue quickly as they were well-versed with police procedures having all served in the royal commission on the police. “We trust we will be able to come up with procedures that will be more acceptable to the people, and in line with human rights policies,” he said. According to The Star newspaper, the panel has been given four areas to investigate - to work out whether the woman in the video was one of five Chinese nationals who were detained by the police, investigate the handling of the body search of the woman in the video, decide whether this body search was inappropriate and investigate the standard procedure regarding body searches.





WHO WOULD BELIEVE SUCH JUNK CRAB THE PARLIMENT IS TALKING?????

ONLY KNOW HOW TO SAY BUT NO FAST ACTION TAKEN!!!!

IT HAS BEEN NEARLY A WEEK SINCE THAT PIC AND VIDEO CAME UP.......