'We need to grow up': Malaysian MPs condemn caning over lesbian sex

Politician calls for decriminalisation of homosexuality amid outrage over punishment in sharia court

A Malaysian MP has called for laws that criminalise homosexuality to be immediately abolished amid outcry over the caning of two women convicted by a sharia court of attempting to have lesbian sex.

Charles Santiago, a parliamentary member from the Malaysian state of Selangor, expressed his outrage in a series of tweets after the punishment was carried out in the Terengganu court on Monday morning.

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