A young woman, 22, is seen wincing in pain and begs the officer to stop as she received 100 strokes of the cane while dozens of spectators watched along the sidelines.
The woman cried as she was
publicly whipped by a masked sharia officer for having pre-marital sex with her
boyfriend in Indonesia's Banda Aceh province.
Two men and women were
flogged at a stadium in Lhokseumawe, some 170 miles from the provincial capital
Banda Aceh on Wednesday, as punishment for having sex before marriage.
Flogging is used as
punishment for several offences in Indonesia's Aceh province, including gambling,
drinking alcohol, having gay sex or pre-marital sex.
A man and woman faced 100
whips of the rattan after they were caught having pre-marital sex, while a
19-year-old teen was also whipped in a separate sentencing for pre-marital sex.
The teenager's white shirt
was soaked in blood by the end of the thrashing and he will now serve five
years in jail.
The couple did not receive
any sentencing.
The flogging was held in a
stadium so children did not have to witness the violent scenes, Fakhrillah, and
official from the local prosecutor's office confirmed.
Indonesia holds the world's
largest Muslim population and Aceh is the only region in the country that
continues to impose Islamic law.
The law has been widely
criticised by human rights groups and even Indonesia's President Joko Widodo
has condemned the practice.
In December, two men who
were caught having sex with underaged girls were whipped 100 times each in
Aceh.
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