A female flogging unit has been introduced in Indonesia’s Aceh province to dole out public whippings against women found violating the region’s Sharia law. One of eight new female Sharia officers ...

(CNN) — An Indonesian man has been publicly flogged for adultery, under a draconian law he helped create. Mukhlis, a member of the Aceh Ulema Council (MPU) in the deeply conservative Aceh province of ...

Global rights group Amnesty International has criticized the recent flogging of two Indonesian men for having a consensual same-sex relationship as a “horrifying act of discrimination.” “Intimate ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) -Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned on Thursday in Aceh province, prompting calls by Amnesty International for the ...

A man is publicly flogged in front of a mosque in the provincial capital Banda Aceh on April 20, 2018. The amorous couples and sex workers were publicly whipped for breaking Islamic law in just a week ...

A leading human rights group has called on Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to intervene to prevent the public flogging of two young men convicted of same-sex sexual relations. The men were ...

Aug. 26 (UPI) --Two men were publicly caned in Indonesia Tuesday for kissing in a park. In the city of Banda Aceh, the two men, ages 20 and 21, were convicted of "having consensual same-sex relations, ...

A woman prepares to be lashed in Indonesia for getting ‘too close’ to her partner This is the shocking moment an Indonesian woman is publicly whipped for getting ‘too close’ to her partner in the days ...