Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them for having sex with each other. Dozens of people witnessed the caning at a ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning for having gay sex.

Fifteen people have been sentenced to flogging in Aceh for various violations so far this year, according to Amnesty, while 135 people received similar punishment last year. Sign up here.

Two university students have been flogged 185 times with rattan sticks in Indonesia for engaging in same-sex sexual relations. An Islamic Shariah court in the conservative Aceh province sentenced the ...

The inmates escaped from Kutacane Prison by breaking through the secure door and fleeing through the main door and the prison ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Dozens of inmates at the Class IIB Kutacane Penitentiary in Southeast Aceh Regency, Aceh Province, ...

Dozens of people witnessed the caning at a hall in Banda Aceh’s Bustanussalatin city park. It’s the fourth time that Aceh, the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law, has caned ...

Each year since then, more than 100 people have been publicly caned. Aceh implemented an expansion of Islamic bylaws and criminal code in 2015 that extended Shariah law to the province’s non-Muslims, ...

Dozens of people witnessed the caning at a hall in Banda Aceh’s Bustanussalatin city park. It’s the fourth time that Aceh, the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law, has caned ...