A 21-year-old Malaysian Muslim woman has been fined 1,200 ringgits (USD 333) after she was caught by Islamic moral police in an Argentine soccer player's bedroom, a news report said today.
It said Farrah Aina Safian Sauri pleaded guilty to the charge of "khalwat," or "close proximity," which under Malaysia's Islamic law is described as a couple not married to each other being alone together in a private place.
The New Straits Times reported that Religious Affairs Department officials in the northeastern state of Kelantan raided the flat of Gustavo Alberto Romero on May 7 and found Farrah Aina in his bedroom. Romero is an imported soccer player, serving as a striker on Kelantan's state team.
Farrah Aina, a pharmacy student at the International Islamic University, admitted in a Shariah Court to visiting Romero's flat at least three times, the daily said. She pleaded for a lighter sentence, saying she is still studying.
"I have repented and I promise never to repeat" the offence, she was quoted as saying. |