KARTINA 1ST MALAYSIAN WOMAN TO BE CANNED FOR DRINKING BEER
Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno will be the first Malaysian woman to be caned under Syariah laws applicable to Muslims.
Source: Reuters
- The mother of two, who also paid a RM5,000 fine, has asked for the punishment, usually carried out in a closed prison, to be done in public.
- She said she had yet to receive any response to her request for a public caning, and is due to be detained in prison for a week beginning Monday, during which time her sentence will be carried out.
- Kartika, a Malaysian married to a Singaporean, was caught drinking by religious authorities at a hotel in Kuantan on Dec 11, 2007.
- She said she had three glasses of beer before the hotel was raided. She and the other patrons were asked to provide urine samples.
- The 20-month ordeal had added to her distress, she said, adding that she respected the law banning alcohol for Muslims and was determined to go through with the punishment – six strokes of the cane.
- She will be fully clothed and kneeling, and struck on the backside with a small thin cane using moderate force.
- Four court appearances over the offence forced her to quit her full-time hospital job and she has since had to rely on part-time modelling jobs.
- “I only declared that I was a model to protect my full-time job. I felt very humiliated because people used my status as a part-time model to publicise my case,” she said.
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