KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 -- Minister of Digital Gobind Singh Deo said he will raise the "deeply disturbing" findings of a Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) inquiry into Taiping Prison to the Cabinet next week, demanding full accountability from the nation's top law enforcement and legal officials.

The Suhakam inquiry, which probed incidents occurring in January 2025, revealed a "harrowing picture of systemic failure" within the prison. The findings detailed excessive physical violence, the weaponisation of batons and pepper spray against handcuffed detainees, and the deliberate falsification of medical records.

The report concluded that these abuses, alongside severe medical negligence, directly contributed to the death of inmat...