INDONESIA: Two men publicly flogged for gay sex

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Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Thursday after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under strict Islamic law.
While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia – the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation – it is outlawed in Aceh, which imposes a version of sharia, the Islamic legal code.
The flogging began before midday at a park in the provincial capital Banda Aceh, with one man accused of instigating the relationship lashed 82 times and the second man 77 times.
Both were caned with a rattan stick as dozens watched on.
The men’s sentences were reduced by three lashes for three months spent in detention.