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Malaysian Women Sentenced to Caning Speak Out
February 19, 2010

Prison staff demonstrate to the media how the caning process was undertaken at the Kajang prison outside Kuala Lumpur. (Reuters Photo) Prison staff demonstrate to the media how the caning process was undertaken at the Kajang prison outside Kuala Lumpur. (Reuters Photo)
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peroblanco
3:02pm Feb 20, 2010

She told the New Straits Times the punishment, administered while fully clothed and by a female prison officer wielding a thin rattan cane, did not hurt.

So what's the point, then?

peterR
2:39pm Feb 20, 2010

Ozz....There are many cures that have become obsolete as man has become more aware. Even animals do not respond to pain, they only fear it and eventually turn against their abuser. If you are not too frightened to discover that you may be wrong, might I suggest that you check out the following link for good reasons why you should not beat children:

http://www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/tenreasons.html

Having done that you might like to google the subject and open your mind to the fact that you may be wrong?

Roland
1:08pm Feb 20, 2010

Well, well Ozz...I have been able to educate 2 children WITHOUT beatings and physical punishment and both of them are now in their 20's and will soon start an own family with children and I am absolutely confident that they will not beat their children either!

If you are as successful as you mentioned, how do you treat your co-workers if they don't perform to set company standards? Are you beating them too or do you write evaluation/improvement records to set them to an expected performance level?

It is completely repelling to me to beat children!

blueberry
11:45am Feb 20, 2010

jacobian64 wrote: "it is safer to be in my lovely country that is indonesia.a country where freedom of human right are uphold."

Really? seriously? LOL...I can see you've been drinking too much!

jacobian64
9:27am Feb 20, 2010

in malaysia and singapore every teacher like to caned its students when they make mistake.this thing did not happens in indonesia. I mean my teacher did not caned me and neither my parents.so I guess indonesia is quite different after all.


Kuala Lumpur. The first Malaysian women to be caned under Islamic law for having illicit sex have reportedly said they regretted their actions and welcomed the punishment.

The three women, whose identities were not revealed, gave the first account of the caning which took place earlier this month, drawing condemnation from human rights activists and applause from Muslim groups.

“On the day I was caned, I was scared but, at the same time, I knew I deserved it and was willing to take the punishment,” said one of the women, a 25-year-old who went by the name of “Ayu”.

She told the New Straits Times the punishment, administered while fully clothed and by a female prison officer wielding a thin rattan cane, did not hurt.

The three women reportedly said they turned themselves in to religious authorities after being wracked by guilt over having pre-marital sex. “Ayu” has a one-year-old daughter with her boyfriend, who she plans to marry, and the other two women also gave birth out of wedlock.

Human rights campaigners, who were stunned by the caning of the women, were skeptical over the comments published in several Malaysian newspapers.

“These three women are just normal people who have been surrounded by all kinds of legal mumbo jumbo and pressured into agreeing to be caned,” one activist told Agence France-Presse, requesting anonymnity due to the sensitivity of the issue.

Islamic authorities triggered an uproar last year when they sentenced Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a mother of two, to six strokes of the cane after she was caught drinking beer in a hotel nightclub.

Her case, the first caning sentence given to a woman under Islamic law in Malaysia, is still under review after she received a last-minute reprieve amid intense media coverage.

Malaysia’s Bar Council said it was “shocking” the caning of the three women went ahead while the Kartika case was still unresolved.

Legal commentators have said the Islamic courts, which operate parallel to the civil system in Malaysia, are becoming increasingly confident, threatening Malaysia’s status as a secular nation.



Agence France-Presse