An video-captured incident involving a Malaysian policewoman abusing a Chinese woman, and allegations that this isn’t uncommon, has Malaysian uberblogger and journalist Jeff Ooi saying this could be Malaysia’s Abu Ghraib:

When I viewed the stills and video clip that MP Teresa Kok showed to Home Affairs Minister Azmi Khalid, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz and Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang at the Parliament today, I sensed it wasn’t only the victim who was shown in nude.

If the images are true, then the dark side of our Malaysian police has also been shown naked, stark naked.

Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid has been ordered by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to visit China to explain that Malaysian enforcement agencies are not targeting Chinese women.

Azmi said the matter was "very urgent" and he had to put off plans to visit Pakistan.

Abdullah issued the instruction following several alleged incidents of Chinese women being stripped while under detention, their money stolen and enforcement officers peeping at them.

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