KUALA LUMPUR: All allegations made by the Singaporean woman who was detained for six days by the Immigration Department in Johor will be investigated, says its director-general.

The allegations include claims of abuse of detainees and an alleged death in custody.

Datuk Ruslin Jusoh said all of these allegations will be looked into by the special investigative committee that has been set up.

"The committee will conduct their investigations from all angles. Give us some time to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation," he said when contacted on Tuesday.

The woman claimed in a series of TikTok posts that she had heard that a China national who was detained had been allegedly abused at the detention center.

In one of the videos she claimed that she was informed by other detainees about this incident.

She detailed in the video that the man was kicked in the chest and beaten with a rubber baton.

She also claimed that an Indonesian man suffered a stroke while in custody and medics attended to him for about an hour before bringing him to hospital.

She claimed that another detainee who she had befriended while being detained told her that the man had died while receiving treatment.

It was reported yesterday that an investigation was underway into the Johor Immigration Department's detention of a Singaporean woman for six days.

Ruslin said the investigation would be led by the deputy director general and was initiated to identify what actually happened there.

When asked why the woman was detained for six days, Ruslin only said they would wait for the investigation to be completed.

According to reports, the woman, Atalia Chua, claimed the incident happened after her biometric scan failed twice.

This led her to approach an immigration officer at one of the counters at the complex. Chua, however, was informed by the officer that the counter was closed.

Chua, in the report, claimed that the officer became upset, and the argument escalated after she questioned how another person had been able to use the same counter.

The officer, she said, allegedly became aggressive after Chua recorded the incident.

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