A member of the Malaysian parliament, Charles Santiago, called the caning of two women for attempting to engage in a sexual act in a car in Terengganu, while 100 witnesses watched them, as “shocking” and “outrageous”, Free Malaysia Today reports. The two women, aged 22 and 32, were seated on stools facing the judges and given six strokes from a light rattan cane on their backs by female prison officers in a Sharia courtroom in northeast Trengganu state, according to The Globe and Mail. Women’s rights groups Justice for Sisters and Sisters in Islam argued against the caning, claiming that it can only be carried out against prisoners as stipulated in the Prison Act 1995 and the Prisons Regulations 2000, say reports.