Two foreign men were each fined 5,000 ringgit (US$1,200) by a court in Malaysia after pleading guilty to wearing indecent clothes during a controversial running event.
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Satyanarayana Prasad Papoli, 70, and Arthur Wang, 66, pleaded guilty after the charges were read to them before Magistrate Nurkhalida Farhana Abu Bakar on Monday.
The charges were read in Mandarin to Wang, of Taiwan, and in English to Satyanarayana, from India.
According to the charge sheets, both men were accused of committing an obscene act that caused disturbance to others in a public place by wearing indecent clothing.
The act was committed near a hotel in Jalan Utama Jalan Desaru, Pengerang, between 4pm and 6pm on Friday.
Public indecency is an offence under Section 294 of Malaysia’s Penal Code, which carries a punishment upon conviction of imprisonment for up to three months or a fine, or both.