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American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
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Caning of Michael Fay
1993–1994 Singaporean judicial sentence of an American teenager
In 1994, a court in Singapore sentenced an American teenager, Michael Fay, to be lashed six times with a cane for violating the Vandalism Act. This caused a temporary strain in relations between Singapore and the United States.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Caning in Singapore
Corporal punishment
Caning is a widely used form of corporal punishment in Singapore. It can be divided into several contexts: judicial, prison, reformatory, military, school and domestic. These practices of caning as punishment were introduced during the period of British colonial rule in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Singapore
Country in Southeast Asia
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude north of the equator, off the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)