Beer Drinking Model Faces Caning

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KUALA LUMPUR, July 21, 2009 (AFP) – A religious court in Malaysia has sentenced a tearful Singaporean Muslim model to six strokes of the cane after she drank beer in a nightclub, reports said Tuesday.

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol at a hotel nightclub in the eastern state of Pahang last year, the New Straits Times newspaper reported.

"We feel the sentence is fair after going through the prosecution's argument and since the rotan (cane) is provided for in the law," Pahang Sharia High Court judge Abdul Rahman Yunus said, according to the paper.

"The rotan is aimed at making the accused repent and serves as a lesson to Muslims," he added, also fining Kartika 5,000 ringgit (1,412 dollars).

The model, who cried when the judgement was delivered, said she would appeal.

State religious officials could not be reached for comment on the case.

Malaysia, which has large Indian and Chinese minorities freely enjoying alcohol, has a two-track legal system. Civil courts operate alongside state-based sharia courts, which can try Muslims for religious offences.

[hiyokokun]

It's just wow. I never those kind of punishment still exist.
After she receive those caning thing, she still have to pay such amount 

I don't know about the law system there,
but is it only applied to those people who is moslem
and people who are not moslem can drinking beer freely ??

(sorry for my english if it confuse you)

[Asmodai]

I don't know about the law system there,
but is it only applied to those people who is moslem
and people who are not moslem can drinking beer freely ??

Yeah, Muslim law only applies to Muslims there. This is ridiculous, but I guess being governed by the legal system is kinda your choice.