'Tourists naked' in Kinabalu freed

Two of the four foreign tourists who go on trial in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Friday (12/06).

Four foreign tourists who photographed naked on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia, released on Friday (12/06).



Judges who try those sentenced three days, and because they had been in custody in recent days, they can now freely.

Besides was sentenced, four are required to pay a fine of 5,000 ringgit.

Before the verdict on Friday, one of them, Eleanor Hawkins, admitted "stupid" and realized he "did not respect the" natural barefoot on Mount Kinabalu.

Four tourists along with six other tourists posing nude on top of Mount Kinbalu - mountain considered sacred local residents - on 30th of May.

Eleanor's father Hawkins, a student from England, said his 'stupid' by posing nude in the peak of Mount Kinabalu.

A few days later an earthquake that killed 18 people, including several children.

Residents and officials in Sabah associate this with the action of natural disasters naked tourists in Kinabalu, actions which they said had angered the "keeper" of the mountain.