Two men were publicly flogged 76 times each in Indonesia’s conservative province of Aceh on Tuesday after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under strict Islamic law.
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Gay sex is outlawed in Aceh, which imposes a version of sharia, the Islamic legal code, but it is not illegal elsewhere in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
The men were part of a group of 10 who were flogged on Tuesday at a park in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, for a range of alleged crimes.
The pair were flogged separately with a rattan stick as a small crowd watched.
Their initial sentences of 80 lashes each were reduced by four for four months spent in detention.
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In April, local sharia police found the two men together at a public toilet in the same park, said Roslina A. Djalil, head of Banda Aceh sharia police’s law enforcement.