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   From: rheberer@outlook.com   
      
   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.   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/world/asia/4-accused-of-   
   stripping-atop-malaysian-peak-plead-guilty-to-public-   
   obscenity.html   
       
      
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