A man and a woman in Indonesia’s Aceh province were publicly flogged on Thursday after being convicted of engaging in sex outside marriage and consuming alcohol, offences banned under the region’s ...

A couple were publicly flogged in Indonesia today for having sex outside of marriage in the country's only region to apply a version of Sharia law. The man and woman, whose ages were not disclosed, ...

The man and woman, whose ages were not disclosed, were each given 100 lashes with a rattan cane in a public park in Banda Aceh as dozens watched. The punishment in the staunchly Islamic Aceh province ...

Banda Aceh, Indonesia — Two men in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province were among a group of people publicly caned on Tuesday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law ...

The man and woman, whose ages were not disclosed, received 100 cane lashes each in a public park in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, with dozens of people watching.

An Islamic court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province — which enforces Sharia law — sentenced two men to 80 lashes each for hugging and kissing, acts the court deemed “sexual.” The closed-door ...