Dozens of people witnessed the caning at a public hall in Banda Aceh. It’s the fourth time that Aceh, the only province in ...

Two men publicly flogged in Indonesia after being found guilty of gay sex - College students were arrested last November ...

The Acehnese capital's "sharia police" is planning to ramp up patrols and public campaigns to ensure compliance with Islamic ...

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

Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned on Thursday (Feb 27) in Aceh ...

Two men were publicly caned in Aceh for same-sex relations under Sharia law, while two others faced caning for gambling ...

A man, found guilty of sexual relations with another man under the strict Islamic sharia law, is publicly flogged in Banda ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them for having sex with each other.

The Banda Aceh Public Order Agency and Wilayatul Hisbah (Satpol PP WH), or "shariah police", plans to intensify monitoring ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them for having sex with each other.