A woman cried as she pleaded with a masked sharia officer to stop whipping her in a public ceremony in Indonesia 's deeply conservative Aceh province on Wednesday. The year-old woman, who was being punished for having pre-marital sex, was among three people who were publicly whipped times.
Flogging is used as punishment for a range of offences in the region at the tip of Sumatra island, including gambling, drinking alcohol , and having gay sex or relations outside of marriage. Three people were publicly whipped times each in Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh province on Wednesday, with one woman pleading for the masked sharia officer to stop because she could not bear the pain.
On Wednesday, the woman and her boyfriend, who is also 22, received strokes each after they were caught having pre-marital sex. The woman broke down several times due to the pain of the punishment, forcing the sharia officer to stop the canning until she was cleared to continue by a doctor. A year-old boy was also whipped with a rattan cane for having sex with a minor. The teen will now serve five years in prison, while the couple will walk free.
On Wednesday, a year-old woman and her boyfriend, who is also 22, received strokes each after they were caught having pre-marital sex. On Wednesday, the woman and her boyfriend pictured who is also 22, received strokes each after they were caught having pre-marital sex. Fakhrillah, an official from the local prosecutor's office, said the flogging was held inside a stadium to prevent children from watching. Aceh is the only province in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country that imposes Islamic law.
In December, two men caught having sex with underage girls were whipped times each in Aceh. Rights groups have slammed public caning as cruel, and Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has called for it to end, but the practice has wide support among Aceh's population. Aceh is the only province in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, which implements Islamic law, or Sharia.
