Immigration forced S'pore duo to do 'nude squats'
Two Singaporean women were reportedly forced to do squats in the nude by Immigration Department personnel following their arrest for “illegal entry” into Malaysia. Such a practice was declared as “inhumane and undignified” and be immediately discontinued by the Royal Commission to Inquire into the Standard Operating Procedure, Rules and Regulations in Relation to the Conduct of Body Search in Respect of an Arrest and Detention report in 2006. According to Singapore's Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao , the incident happened during the wee hours of June 9 when the two women drove across the Causeway from the island republic. The duo were headed to Johor Bahru for supper, but they were apparently negligent and walked passed the immigration counter without having their passports stamped. For this, they were reportedly detained on the charge of being illegal immigrants and held at a lock-up facility in Pontian, Johor. Under the pseudonym of Lin Li Li, the woman told the newspape...