PUTRAJAYA: The independent commission set up to investigate the nude-ear squat incident at a police lock-up will sit from Monday at a courtroom in the Sultan Abdul Samad building on Jalan Raja.

The hearing, which will start from 9am, is open to the public.

Commission chairman Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah said it will receive a full report on the incident from police this week and call witnesses once the attorney-general's office has gone through the report and decided on who to summon.

He said holding the hearing in a courtroom would create a formal environment, as well as make it accessible to the public.

The commission will visit the Petaling Jaya police headquarters lock-up where the incident allegedly took place.

Dzaiddin, a former chief justice, said the commission's report on the inquiry will be made public and will be based on human rights.

"We are complying with human rights. It is our most important stand," he said.

The basis of the inquiry, and the final recommendations to be made, will be universal, which means it will be in accordance with judgments made in other countries.

"But still, these are the things we have got to learn from others to find out whether it is universal practice and whether it follows the human rights aspect," he said.

Dzaiddin said the commission will, if necessary, make further recommendations to the government based on their first commission report released early this year to enhance the police force.

Asked why the government failed to implement recommendations made by the commission (which he also headed) earlier, Dzaiddin said the Prime Minister's working committee has implemented some of the recommendation made.

However, he added: "I think only the radical ones are not being implemented yet and are still being studied."

Dzaiddin was speaking to newsmen after chairing the committee's first meeting at the Home Ministry here.

The committee has been given 30 working days from last Thursday to compleete its job and come up with a report. Their four terms of reference are:

• To ascertain if the women in the nude ear-squat is one of five China nationals who were arrested by the police. They are Yu Xuezhen, Wu Xiohua, Gu Xiuhua, Liu Jing and Wang Xiu Lan.
• To investigate the conductÊof body search on the woman featured in the controversial video clip while in police detention.
• To ascertain whether there was impropriety in the handling of the nude ear-squat woman in the video clip while in police detention and;
• To investigate police's standard operating procedure, rules and regulations pertaining to body search of police detainees and to recommend amendments and changes to such procedures.

The five-member commission was named on Thursday to investigate the incident where a woman was asked to do nude ear-squats at the Petaling Jaya police lock-up, a scene that was recorded on a MMS video clip and mass circulated.

Other members of the commission are former MCA deputy president Tan Sri Lim Ah Lek, Wanita Umno Legal Aid Bureau chief Datuk Kamilia Ibrahim, former Bar Council president Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari and Datuk Hamzah Md Rus who is the commission secretary.