Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno hugs her father Shukarno from a van belonging to the Islamic Religious Department at her father's house in Sungei Siput, about 300km (186 miles) north of Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia's state of Perak August 24, 2009. Religious authorities in Malaysia on Monday freed Kartika who was on her way to a jail in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, to be caned for drinking beer. She would have been the first woman to be caned in this Southeast Asian country.. REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim (MALAYSIA SOCIETY RELIGION CRIME LAW)