18 months sought for abusive customs officer

TAICHUNG, Taiwan -- Prosecutors requested yesterday a prison term of one year and six months for an immigration officer whom they indicted on charges of abusing detainees.

Taichung Prosecutors’ Office said that Ma Yun-chie, while on duty at a provisional detention center in a Taichung city police station in late August, shackled and assaulted a detainee from Vietnam for making too much noise before sending him to solitary confinement.

In early October,Ma again restricted the movement of a Vietnamese detainee and set the air conditioner to a unbearably low temperature in yet another incident of abuse.

Ma denied abusing or assaulting the detainees. But prosecutors, after investigating the complaints, determined that Ma had been abusive.

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