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Related: About this forumLGBT rights: Malaysia women caned for attempting to have lesbian sex
Source: BBC
LGBT rights: Malaysia women caned for attempting to have lesbian sex
3 September 2018
Two Malaysian women convicted of attempting to have lesbian sex in a car have been caned in a religious court.
The Muslim women, aged 22 and 32, were each caned six times in the Sharia High Court in the state of Terengganu.
According to an official, this is the state's first conviction for same-sex relations and its first public caning.
Human rights activists reacted with outrage. Homosexual activity is illegal under both secular and religious laws.
The caning was witnessed by more than 100 people, according to local news outlet The Star.
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3 September 2018
Two Malaysian women convicted of attempting to have lesbian sex in a car have been caned in a religious court.
The Muslim women, aged 22 and 32, were each caned six times in the Sharia High Court in the state of Terengganu.
According to an official, this is the state's first conviction for same-sex relations and its first public caning.
Human rights activists reacted with outrage. Homosexual activity is illegal under both secular and religious laws.
The caning was witnessed by more than 100 people, according to local news outlet The Star.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45395086
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LGBT rights: Malaysia women caned for attempting to have lesbian sex (Original Post)
Eugene
Sep 2018
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. FFS, how backward and inhumane. n/t
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. No words
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)3. Not the same, but ...
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Odoreida
(1,549 posts)4. It's always some religion or another n/t