Aceh agony as 5 more caned in public
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AN INDONESIAN woman screamed in agony yesterday as she was caned in Aceh, the latest in a growing number of women to be publicly flogged for breaking the province’s strict Islamic laws.
Aceh is the only province in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country that imposes sharia law. People can face floggings for a range of offenses — from gambling, to drinking alcohol, to gay sex.
Yesterday, five people — two women and three men — were flogged in front of a cheering crowd at a mosque in the provincial capital Banda Aceh.
The 34-year-old woman was found guilty of spending time in close proximity with a man who was not her husband. She was lashed seven times with a rattan cane by a man wearing a hood, with just slits for the eyes.
“It hurts so bad,” the woman said, raising her arms into the air, as she was beaten.
The 32-year-old man with whom she was caught was also flogged seven times.
Two university students, both 19, received 100 lashes after they confessed to sex outside marriage.
A man found guilty of sex outside marriage was flogged 22 times although his partner, who is two months pregnant, is still awaiting her fate after facing trial at an Islamic court. Authorities typically spare pregnant women from canings.
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