(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Acehnese man reacts to flogging during public caning Tuesday, after being convicted of having a same-sex relationship, in Banda ...

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 ...

Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned the public caning of two men in Indonesia’s Aceh province after they were convicted of same-sex relations under Islamic criminal law. Aceh, located on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indonesia’s Sharia police have a unique take on diversity that might seem odd to Western ears: its historic all-female flogging squad. Banda Aceh Sharia police chief investigator Zakwan, who uses one ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Indonesian province of Aceh on Saturday approved an anti-homosexuality law that can punish anyone caught having gay sex with 100 lashes, a lawmaker said.

Two teenagers were whipped in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday after they were caught cuddling in public -- a crime under the conservative region's Islamic law. Flogging is used as punishment for ...

Two teenagers were whipped in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday after they were caught cuddling in public -- a crime under the conservative region's Islamic law. Flogging is used as punishment for ...