Strip searching and ear squats are legal. An excerpt from The Star,

On the ear squats, ACP Mazlan said, in some cases, simple exercise steps and corporal punishment were carried out to ensure the suspects stretched out their arms and legs to ascertain there were no hidden items.

Corporal punishment? So, the lady in the picture has been judged and deemed guilty of an unknown offence. So the police has taken the law into its own hands and deemed humiliation as a just sentence. However, it appears that they have forgotten to document this event.

From The Star,

Azmi: Government will protect woman in video if she comes out PENGKALAN PASIR: The Government is willing to provide protection to the naked woman doing ear squats in the controversial video clip in a bid to get her to come forward and give evidence. “Let me assure the victim or victims that they shall be protected. They can help us in the investigations and bring the culprits to justice,” Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid said. He added that there was suspicion that the victim could be an illegal, as this would explain why she was not willing to come forward.

Before asking the "victim" to expose her identity to the hungry press, the police should at least have some sort of a record documenting her arrest and subsequent humiliation. If she was just brought to the station for questioning, why was she strip searched? What were the reasons for her arrest?

Every citizen should fear if the police has the authority to strip search anyone it wishes to without any form of charges.

Police to go after person who filmed naked woman BY LOURDES CHARLES KUALA LUMPUR: Who shot the scenes? This is the crux of police investigations into the controversial video clip showing a naked Chinese woman doing ear squats while in police custody. Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Musa Hassan said whoever took the video clip - whether from the force or a civilian – would be charged under the Penal Code with insulting the modesty of a person or intruding into the privacy of a woman. The offender can be fined or jailed up to five years or both.

As usual, whistle blowers are hunted down. There should be an outcry of justice. Instead the police has now turned the tables, justifying their actions and putting blame on someone who obviously wanted to expose a police malpractice.

This turn of events sickens me.