Malaysia religious court orders caning for woman

2009/09/28 09:38:11 @Reuters: International News

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian religious court appeals panel on Monday upheld a caning sentence for a woman who drank beer, despite criticism from groups worried about the rise of conservative Islam in the multi-racial Southeast Asian nation. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=6INMNnTv1_I:QT_oz0T2kH0:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=6INMNnTv1_I:QT_oz0T2kH0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=6INMNnTv1_I:QT_oz0T2kH0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=6INMNnTv1_I:QT_oz0T2kH0:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=6INMNnTv1_I:QT_oz0T2kH0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/6INMNnTv1_I" height="1" width="1"/
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