Mohd Affendi, a 42-year-old widower, spent time on 16 June with a woman not from his family. If no appeal is made, he will be struck six times with a rotan cane on 16 December. His action is an offenc ...

A 42-year-old father of five faces a public caning at a mosque in Malaysia after being convicted of the Islamic crime of ...

A 42-year-old Malaysian carpenter, Mohd Affendi Awang, faces public caning at a mosque in Terengganu on December 6th. This is ...

By Sisters in Islam The public caning of Mohd Affendi Awang in Terengganu – the first under the amended Terengganu Syariah Criminal Offences (Takzir) Enactment 2022 (Section 31(a)) – is a barbaric act ...

A 42-year-old father is sentenced to public caning in Terengganu, Malaysia, for the Islamic crime of khalwat, marking a shift in punishment visibility. The first public execution follows new ...

A women’s rights group has slammed the decision to publicly cane a man convicted of khalwat (close proximity) in a mosque, ...

Under Malaysia’s Immigration Act, anyone who illegally enters the country can face a 10,000 ringgit ($2,345 or 252,747 yen) fine, up to five years’ jail as well as six strokes of a cane.

A carpenter will be the first person in Terengganu to receive six lashes in public after being convicted of repeated khalwat ...

the penalty for which is three strokes of the cane! Malaysia's new law is actually targeted against motorcyclists racing through the countryside around Kuala Lumpur, but we suspect they wouldn't ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): A Malaysian high court spared 27 Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar from caning on Wednesday ... island of Langkawi for entering Malaysia by boat without a valid ...