<\/span> source<\/a> <\/p>\n SHAH ALAM: M. Revathi, the housewife and mother who was released on Thursday after six months' internment in a faith rehabilitation centre, is overjoyed at being reunited with her family. <\/p>\n "The separation was unbearable. I do not want any woman to go through the same ordeal," she said at the Shah Alam High Court yesterday, where she was following a habeas corpus application her husband V. Suresh filed on her behalf two months ago. <\/p>\n The mother of an 18-month-old daughter described her stay at the centre in Hulu Yam Bharu, Selangor, as a sad chapter in her life.<\/p>\n "I really missed my husband and daughter who was then still being breast-fed." <\/p>\n Revathi, whose Muslim name is Siti Fatimah Abdul Karim, said she had always looked forward to seeing them once a fortnight even if it was for a short while outside the centre's gates. Revathi was detained at the Baitul Aman faith rehabilitation centre on Jan 8. <\/p>\n On Thursday, the Malacca Syariah High Court ordered that she be placed under the care of her Muslim parents.<\/p>\n Revathi said the court had also ruled that she should remain a Muslim.<\/p>\n Recollecting her time at the centre, Revathi said she would be up at 5am and undergo religious programmes until 11pm each day. <\/p>\n "But I was left alone when others performed obligatory prayers five times a day," she said.<\/p>\n She said the other women, including wayward girls, at the centre sympathised with her and comforted her. <\/p>\n Revathi said she cried a lot, especially when she was left alone.<\/p>\n "I looked forward to the day I would be set free," she said.<\/p>\n Her parents had converted to Islam before their children were born. Revathi, the eldest of five siblings, was raised by her grandmother in Merlimau, Malacca. <\/p>\n She met Suresh nine years ago and in 2004 they underwent a Hindu wedding, whereupon she took the name Revathi.<\/p>\n Soon after the marriage, she attempted to change her Muslim name and religion at the National Registration Department but was told to get a certificate from the Syariah Court. <\/p>\n Her misery began when she made the application and the state religious authority obtained a court order to send her to the rehabilitation centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Housewife glad to be back home source SHAH ALAM: M. Revathi, the housewife and mother who was released on Thursday after six months' internment in a faith rehabilitation centre, is overjoyed at being reunited with her family. "The separation was unbearable. I do not want any woman to go through the same ordeal," she said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[142,278,302,147],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-malacca","tag-ngo","tag-religion","tag-selangor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n