Kelantan's new syariah laws criminalises tattooing and plastic surgery


GEORGE TOWN: Attempts of converting out of Islam, distortion of Islamic teachings, disrespecting the month of Ramadan, destroying houses of worship, tattooing and undergoing plastic surgery are among the offences that will be punished under Kelantan’s Syariah Criminal Code (I) Enactment 2019 which came into effect on Monday (Nov 1).

Other matters related to the 24 new provisions in the enactment were sexual intercourse with corpses and non-humans, witchcraft and false claims.

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