Two men in Indonesia’s Aceh province caned for having sex

losangelesblade.com:

Two men in Indonesia’s Aceh province were publicly caned on Thursday after their neighbors caught them having sex. The Associated Press reported the two men who are 27- and 29-years-old respectively were each caned 77 times in the province’s capital of Banda Aceh under Shariah law.

A source in Banda Aceh who asked the Washington Blade to remain anonymous in order to protect their identity confirmed religious police arrested the two men on Nov.

12, 2020, after their neighbors said they had just had sex. “They were both flogged because they were both arrested in a raid carried out by residents on the night of Nov.

12, 2020,” the source told the Blade. “The residents who carried out the raid had lurked some time before. According to residents,