Police have denied that female detainees were forced to change their sanitary pads in front of female police officers.

Inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar said the accusation made by a woman detained during a gig at independent music venue Rumah Api, Ampang last week, were baseless.

"I have checked, no such thing happened.

"Surely we would not ask them to change their pads in front of us," he said.

He added that police would not degrade women to such an extent.

"These allegations are too much [...] it is meant to make us look bad," Khalid ( photo ) said.

One of the female detainees, however, gave a rather detailed account of the 'humiliation' experienced by eight of the 13 women arrested at Rumah Api and who were menstruating at the time.

They were among the 100-plus people picked up in the raid last Friday.

They were remanded under the Sedition Act for attending a gig themed ‘Party Tonight, Revolution Tomorrow’ held on the eve of the Bersih 4 rally.

The woman, who insisted she only came for the music, said they were interrogated about the rally and about trying to topple the government.

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All of those detained were released yesterday excep t for two foreigners, an Indonesian and a Filipino, who had trouble producing their identification papers to the police.

The Filipino, an expatriate who has been working in Malaysia for five years, was released yesterday.

The Indonesian, a tourist is still in detention because there is no record of him entering Malaysia in the immigration entry system despite his passport being stamped at the Malaysia-Singapore immigration counter through which he entered.

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