KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 -- Kasthuri Patto today called for the establishment of an independent inquiry into the events leading to the death of Nigerian Thomas Orhions Ewansiha at the Bukit Jalil Immigration Detention Centre earlier this month.

The Batu Kawan MP said she filed a report at the Travers police station at 7.08pm yesterday to compel the authorities to look into the Immigration's standard operating procedure (SOP), which she criticised as outdated and a blemish on the government's human rights record.

"The Immigration Department must redevelop a new SOP on how foreigners are managed in our detention centres, which are notorious for being dirty, unhygienic. Treatment of them, whether male or female, is sometimes beyond imaginatio...