Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them for ...

One man, accused of initiating the relationship, received 82 lashes, while the other was punished with 77 strokes. And, both ...

Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Thursday after they were found guilty of sexual ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province has sentenced two men to public caning for having gay sex.

Human rights groups slam public caning as cruel, but it has strong support among Aceh’s population. In 2021, a couple were flogged for having gay sex. In January, four men were flogged in Aceh ...

Two men in the country's conservative Aceh province were publicly caned after a syariah court convicted them for having sex with each other.

In a shocking ruling, an Islamic Shariah court in Muslim-majority Indonesia’s Aceh province on Monday, sentenced two men to ...

Aceh implemented an expansion of Islamic bylaws and criminal code in 2015 that extended Shariah law to the province’s non-Muslims, who account for about 1% of the population, and allows up to ...