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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – At university, three years ago Esma* felt a persistent pain along her arm and went to the campus clinic.

When she lay on the examination bed, the medic asked her to unbutton the top of her dress. He said that a lump on her chest could be causing the pain and told her to lower her bra.

“I did what he asked me to do because there was nothing suspicious at first. I thought he was doing his job,” she told Al Jazeera.

She soon discovered otherwise.

The medic told…