Sharia law in Indonesia's Aceh province allows up to 100 public lashes for morality offenses including gay sex and sex ...

The men were among a group of 10 publicly flogged in Banda Aceh under sharia law, which is not applied elsewhere in Indonesia ...

Two men were caned under Aceh's law prohibiting same-sex sexual relations even though they weren't caught having sex.

Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia's conservative province of Aceh on Tuesday, August 26, after a Sharia court found them guilty of engaging in gay sex. Each man received 76 lashes with a ...

Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned the public caning of two men in Indonesia’s Aceh province after they were convicted of same-sex relations under Islamic criminal law. Aceh, located on the ...

Aceh continues to rank among Indonesia’s poorest provinces, despite its vast natural resources and a multi-billion-dollar ...

JAKARTA: "If you run, you are shot. If you don't, you are beaten," a 20-year-old Acehnese man said about life in the region, ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province sentenced two men to public caning 80 times each after ...

The 2005 Helsinki agreement, which ended almost three decades of armed conflict between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the ...

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Two men were publicly caned in Indonesia Tuesday for kissing in a park after they were convicted of "having consensual sexual ...

An Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by hugging and kissing, which the court ruled can lead to banned sexual relations.