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Religious authorities in the northern Malaysian state of Terengganu have been accused of acting like the “Taliban”, after a sharia court ordered a 42-year-old father of five to be the first in the state to be caned for close proximity with a woman out of wedlock. The court on Wednesday ordered the man, a construction […]
It has been more than two weeks since 17-year-old Erma Fatima Shamsul Bahari went missing in the middle of a family breakfast at a restaurant in Malaysia, with a flurry of action on a smartphone before she vanished being the only clue to her disappearance. “We just don’t know where she is,” her father, Shamsul […]