Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Indonesian woman was whipped 100 times over an affair for which the man got 15 lashes, AFP reported. Public flogging is a ...

Two women and two men were publicly tortured for having sex outside of marriage. Islamic officials in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday imposed the punishment — 100 lashes each — under Sharia Law.

The lashes to Roya Heshmati's body have triggered renewed condemnation of Iran's harsh punishments against women for alleged crimes against "morality." But the official reason for carrying out the ...

Two men caught having sex with underage girls were whipped 100 times each in Muslim-majority Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Wednesday, as one begged officials to stop the painful punishment ...

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