Malaysia woman spared caning

Religious authorities in Malaysia today freed a woman who was on her way to a jail in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, to be caned for drinking beer. "The warrant cannot be executed," Sharafuddin Zainal Ariffin, head of enforcement for the state of Pahang's...

Religious authorities in Malaysia today freed a woman who was on her way to a jail in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, to be caned for drinking beer.

"The warrant cannot be executed," Sharafuddin Zainal Ariffin, head of enforcement for the state of Pahang's Islamic Affairs Department, told reporters after Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, was returned to her house.

She would have been the first woman to be caned in this Southeast Asian country.

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