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Informally, the term caning, as well as strokes of the cane and strokes of the rotan, is used. In both legislation and press reports, the term used is caning. Dimensions of the cane About 1.2 m (3.9 ft) long and no more than 1.27 cm (0.5 in) in diameter About 1.09 m (3.6 ft) long and no more than 1.25 cm (0.49 in) in diameter
In June 2010, Fay's case was recalled in international news, after another foreigner in Singapore, Swiss national Oliver Fricker, was sentenced to five months in jail and three strokes of the cane for trespassing a rail depot to vandalise a metro train that is a part of the country's Mass Rapid Transit. [33]
In Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei, healthy males under 50 years of age can be sentenced to a maximum of 24 strokes of the rotan cane on the bare buttocks; the punishment is mandatory for many offences, mostly violent or drug crimes, but also immigration violations, sexual offences and (in Singapore) acts of vandalism.
But Singapore imposes a mandatory death penalty for people convicted of supplying certain amounts of illicit drugs – 15 grams (half an ounce) of heroin, 30 grams of cocaine, 250 grams of ...
Under the 1966 Vandalism Act, vandals could be sentenced to three years imprisonment, fined a maximum of SGD 2,000 and given a minimum of three strokes of the cane. For entering a protected place under the Protected Areas and Protected Places Act, Fricker could have been sentenced to a maximum of two years imprisonment and fined up to SGD 1,000.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Japanese hairstylist has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison and 20 strokes of the cane in Singapore for what the judge described as a “brutal and cruel” assault and rape of a drunk student five years ago, his lawyer said Thursday.
Sentenced to six years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane on 24 April 2007, his sentence was reduced to 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 years in jail and six strokes of the cane. Arsan was convicted of abetment of armed robbery with hurt and other charges, and was sentenced to 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane. Daniel, Christopher ...
District Judge Seng Kwang Boon presided over the joint trial of Neo Soo Kai, Neo's girlfriend, and Melvin Yeo Yew Beng. On 19 July 2000, Neo Soo Kai was sentenced to seven years' jail and 14 strokes of the cane, Neo's girlfriend was sentenced to two years' jail, and Melvin Yeo was sentenced to six years behind bars and caned 16 strokes.