Banda Aceh, Indonesia, April 7, 2026 (AFP) - Indonesian couple get 100 lashes each for sex outside marriage

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2026-04-07

A couple was publicly flogged in Indonesia's staunchly Islamic Aceh province on Tuesday for having sex outside of marriage, an AFP reporter witnessed, in the country's only region to apply a version of Sharia 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. "We implement Islamic law in Aceh, so whenever someone violates it,......

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