HONG KONG — Four Westerners who stripped atop Malaysia’s highest peak pleaded guilty on Friday to public obscenity and were due to be deported, their lawyer said.
The
four were fined about $1,300 apiece and received three-day jail
sentences, which they had already served, said the lawyer, Ronny Cham.
They were scheduled to take the first flight Saturday morning out of the
city of Kota Kinabalu, he said. They had faced possible jail terms of
up to three months.
Their
case received international attention after some local officials said
that by removing their clothes on Mount Kinabalu, which is considered
sacred by many who live near it, the foreigners had helped cause a
deadly earthquake last week.
Eleanor
Hawkins, a 24-year-old British woman; Dylan Snel, a 23-year-old Dutch
man; and Lindsey Peterson, 23, and his sister Danielle Peterson, 22, of
Canada were part of a group who split off from a larger party of
trekkers on the mountain last month. They removed their clothes and took
photos, despite requests from a guide that they not do so.
Their
act provoked local anger after the guide reported the episode. But the
outrage grew after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake on June 5 that killed 18
people on the mountain.
Online,
many Malaysians denounced the behavior of the foreign visitors. Some
officials in Sabah, the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo where
Kinabalu is, said they agreed with local sentiment that the earthquake
was linked to the visitors’ display.
Six other members of the group were sought by the police but were believed to have left the country.
Emil
Kaminski, who is believed to be a member of the group that undressed,
posted a video online in which he mocked the assertion that their
actions had anything to do with the earthquake as foolishly
unscientific.
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