THIRTY-SEVEN-year-old Sharmila gets teary and a bit scared when asked about the syariah sentence for her husband Agussalim M. Yamin. He is to be caned five times in public for a gambling offence.
“He was caught somewhere else and my neighbours and other villagers don’t know about it,” she says in her home in her village in Lhoksemauwe.
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