KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two Malaysian Muslim women convicted under Islamic laws of attempting to have sex were caned Monday in a rare public whipping that was slammed by lawmakers and rights ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia’s prime minister urged a Muslim woman waiting to be caned for drinking beer to appeal the sentence, saying Tuesday that her plea would likely get a sympathetic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malaysian man publicly caned at mosque for Islamic crime of close proximity at Kuala Terengganu KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian man was ...

KARAI, Malaysia — Malaysia abruptly granted a Ramadan reprieve to the first Muslim Malay woman to be sentenced to caning for drinking beer, but insisted Monday the thrashing would still take place ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Malaysia to quash a caning sentence for a lesbian couple, calling the punishment cruel and unjust. Two unidentified ethnic Malay ...

A new Amnesty International report, released today (Monday 6 December), paints a horrific picture of the brutal and torturous nature of caning in Malaysia. The 59-page report called A Blow to Humanity ...

Subscribe today! KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- The first woman in Muslim-majority Malaysia to face caning for drinking beer was reprieved Monday because of the holy month of Ramadan. Her family said ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has caned dozens of refugees as illegal immigrants, a refugee group said, sparking criticisms by rights organisations that the government is torturing people it ...

Amnesty International has condemned the sentencing of a 32-year-old Malaysian woman to the cruel punishment of caning for the crime of drinking alcohol in public. On 20 July the Shariah High Court in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A 42-year-old father of five faces a public caning at a mosque in Malaysia after being convicted of the ...