“I was stripped naked and made to squat on the first night of my arrival,” says Ma Saet Khar, a Malaysian immigration detainee.
He spent 25 days in Malaysia’s notorious Lawa detention center.
He spent only five hours a day sleeping on a metal bed with no pillows, blankets or sheets, and 12 hours a day sitting with his head bowed.
Malaysia’s strict Lawa detention system is one of the most brutal and abusive in the world, according to the Global Detention Project, which monitors detention centers.