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KUALA LUMPUR – Four Malaysian men have been caned for having gay sex in violation of Islamic laws, with activists on Tuesday (Nov 19) condemning “vicious punishments” they said highlighted a crackdown on the LGBT community.
Rights group say there is a worsening climate for gays in the Muslim-majority country, where authorities have maintained a colonial-era ban on sodomy and mete out harsh physical punishments for same-sex relations.
The men, aged 26 to 37, received six strokes of the cane each in a prison outside Kuala Lumpur on Monday for attempting “intercourse against the order of nature”, an offence under syariah law, Amnesty International said.
They admitted committing the offence in an apartment last year, with an Islamic court also fining the men and sentencing them to jail terms of up to seven months each.
Religious authorities found out about the private event by monitoring messages between the men, and then sent a raiding party of 50 officers to detain them, according to Amnesty.
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