Public flogging is a common punishment for certain victimless crimes in the Aceh province. Human Rights Watch has condemned the practice as "barbaric" and called for it to end. On Thursday, an ...

Poachers who threaten endangered orangutans, tigers and other wildlife could receive up to 100 lashes under new rules in Indonesia's Aceh province, which usually reserves whipping for morality crimes ...

A female flogging unit has been introduced in Indonesia’s Aceh province to dole out public whippings against women found violating the region’s Sharia law. One of eight new female Sharia officers ...

IDI, Indonesia (AFP) — An Indonesian man who fainted as he was being whipped for premarital sex Thursday was revived to receive the rest of his punishment before being taken to a hospital. Despite ...

A teen gets whipped for violating Sharia Law by spending time in close proximity with her boyfriend, who is not her husband, in Aceh Province, Indonesia. Getty Images A female flogging unit has been ...

JEDDAH – As per the Saudi legal system which is based on Shariah law, acceptable punishments given by local courts to convicts include flogging sentences. Lashes are commonly combined with ...

Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, the Nigerian teenager sentenced to 180 lashes for fornication, was reportedly married to a farmer this week, possibly in an effort to prevent the punishment, but the judge who ...

December 23, 2010 — In an unprecedented sinister gesture to the beleaguered people of Darfur, the Sudanese Justice Ministry transferred its notorious judge, as seen in the YouTube video film of the ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Under mounting international pressure, an Islamic court has reduced and indefinitely postponed the flogging of a 17-year-old Muslim girl who says she was pressured by her father ...

Doha: An argument in a Qatari magazine that the stoning of adulterous married husbands or wives was not supported by Islamic Shariah (law) is set to ignite a heated debate in the country and well ...

The woman confessed to having extramarital sex, while the man had a reduced sentence because he denied the accusations and appealed to the Sharia Supreme Court.Mimi Saputra/SOPA Images/LightRocket via ...