Banda Aceh, Indonesia — Sharia police caned a pair 140 occasions every in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday for having intercourse outdoors marriage and ingesting alcohol, seemingly one of many severest such punishments because the deeply conservative area adopted Islamic regulation.
Sexual relations between an single couple are strictly outlawed in Aceh, the one place in Indonesia to impose a model of sharia.
The couple, a person and a girl, had been struck on their backs with a rattan stick in a public park whereas dozens of individuals watched, in keeping with an AFP reporter on the scene.
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