Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has urged Education Minister Radzi Jidin to take decisive action to put a stop to period spot checks and rape culture in schools.<br /><br />The former education minister urged the ministry to eradicate these invasive checks.<br /><br />“This is a crazy practice. No one ever did this in all of Islam’s 1,400 years of history.<br /><br />“There must be action not only to stop this but to penalise (those who conduct such checks),” he exclaimed.<br /><br />Women previously told Malaysiakini that they had to show their blood-stained sanitary pads, do swabs of their vagina or have a teacher, warden, or school prefect pat them down at the groin to feel whether they were wearing a sanitary pad.<br /><br />These checks were to verify if they were on their period and thus be allowed to skip ritual prayers.
