Sunda princesses freed


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 22 Jan 2008

MIRI: The Sessions Court threw out four of the six charges brought by the Sarawak Immigration Department against each of the two women who claimed to be "princesses of the Sunda Empire." 

Judge Timothy Finlayson Joel on Tuesday acquitted and discharged Puteri Lamia Roro Wiranata, 21, and Puteri Fathia Reza, 23, on two charges each for illegally entering Sarawak between July 13 and July 22, last year, through the Sungai Tujuh Immigration Complex at the Malaysia-Brunei border near here. 

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