Muslim lovers to be caned for sex
By staff writers
NEWS.com.au
September 18, 2009
A MALAYSIAN couple will be caned as punishment for having sex out of wedlock in a car, a court has ruled.
The couple, who pleaded guilty to the sex charges, were sentenced to six strokes of the cane each by the Shariah High Court in Selangor on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.
The maximum penalty for having sex out of wedlock was three years jail.
Religious police had caught 29-year-old Mohamad Shahrin Abdul Majid and girlfriend Nadiah Najat Hussin, 24, at an office car park in May.
Police say they were wearing only their underwear at the time.
Lawyer Shafezan Rusli today said they will appeal against the caning as they planned on getting married in the near future.
The couple had already paid a court-ordered fine of $1600 each, he said.
The case is just the latest in a string of controversial rulings under by Malaysian Shariah law in recent months.
In July, a woman who had been caught drinking alcohol was sentenced to a caning. Her sentence has not yet been carried out.
This week, an Indonesian man was sentenced to a whipping and jailed for 12 months over drinking.
The country’s Shariah law is applied to personal matters of the Muslim population.
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