A video grab of the woman who allegedly argued with policemen and threatened them at a roadblock in Sabah last week.
“EDICT is perplexed over the need for the police to confiscate her clothes when she was arrested,” the group said in a statement today. “The case is not so serious that her clothes needed to be seized and used as evidence. Among the items confiscated were the clothes the woman wore at the incident, her mobile phone, vehicle registration certificate and car keys.
It said the application for long remand periods could be seen as a lack of awareness over the potential spread of the Covid-19 virus in lock-ups.