Man And Woman Publicly Flogged 100 Times For Having S&x Outside Marriage

A man and woman were publicly flogged 100 times each in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Wednesday after they were found guilty of sex outside marriage by a court operating under strict Islamic law.
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‎Sexual relations between an unmarried couple are outlawed in Aceh, which imposes a version of sharia, the Islamic legal code.
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‎Indonesia banned sex outside of marriage in its latest criminal code in 2022, but that law will not come into force until next year.
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‎The two were lashed in sets of 10 with a rattan stick as a small crowd watched on at a park in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, and the female suspect was lashed by a woman, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.

Three other suspects were caned a combined 49 times for alleged gambling and alcohol consumption.
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‎”Today we are carrying out flogging punishment for perpetrators of adultery, alcohol consumption, and online gambling,” Banda Aceh Mayor Illiza Sa’aduddin Djamal told reporters.
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‎”This becomes a moral lesson for the community at large. This flogging punishment becomes a gateway to repentance for them.”
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‎Medical services were on standby for all of those convicted. ‎Rights groups have condemned the punishment as draconian.
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‎Yet caning retains strong support among Aceh’s population as a common punishment for a range of offences, including gambling, drinking alcohol, and adultery.