Islamic authorities in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Thursday publicly flogged two women and two men for engaging in sex outside marriage, an AFP reporter witnessed. The punishment was carried out under the province’s Islamic legal code, which criminalises sexual relations between unmarried individuals. Dressed in white, the four convicts winced and cried out as they each received 100 lashes with a rattan cane in a public park in Ban…
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