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Woman will be canned for drinking beer in Malaysia
(But the good thing is, the rattan cane will be lighter than those used to punish men.)
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Muslim model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno has become the first woman in Malaysia to be sentenced to a caning after being caught drinking beer in a beach resort.
The 32-year-old will receive six lashes at a woman´s prison next week in what is being viewed as an example of the growing influence of Islamic hardliners on the country.
..her husband, paid a fine of £860, but declined to lodge an appeal so she could get the punishment over with and put the episode behind her.
She was arrested in July last year in a hotel nightclub in the beach resort of Cherating during a raid by the state´s religious department and admitted drinking beer.
An Islamic court fined her and ordered her to be caned at Kajang women´s prison next week, but spared her a jail term of up to three years.
She received word of the sentence from her father and said she would be returning to Malaysia from Singapore.
"I accept the punishment," she said. ...
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Prosecutor Saiful Idham Sahimi said: "This is the first case in Malaysia. It is a good punishment because under Islamic law a person who drinks commits a serious offence."
.... The lashes administered to the buttocks, break the skin and leave scars.
But in Kartika´s case the rattan cane will be lighter than those used to punish men. Sharia law dictates it be no thicker than the little finger and the cane cannot be lifted so high the arm is away from the armpit. ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...e-first-woman-caned-in-Malaysia.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6802628.ece
Well.... Sheria for you!!!
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So only got room for an extra pack of tissues 