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Two men publicly flogged for gay sex
Saturday Star
|August 30, 2025
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 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, according to an AFP journalist present.
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