Two men were hit in public 76 times on Tuesday, August 26, in the conservative province of Aceh, in Indonesia, considered guilty of having had homosexual relations by a court that applies the strict Islamic law.
Homosexual relations are prohibited in Aceh, which applies a strict version of Sharia’s law, Islamic law, but are not illegal in other parts of the most populated Muslim country in the world.
The two men were part of a group of ten people who were whipped on Tuesday in a park in the provincial capital Banda Aceh for several alleged crimes. They were marked separately with a Ratán stick in the presence of a small crowd, according to an AFP journalist present on the site.
Its initial sentence of 80 tabs each was reduced by four blows during the four months that passed in arrest.
A sanction condemned by human rights organizations
In April, the Local Police responsible for the application of the Sharia Law had surprised them in public bathrooms located in the same park where the flagellation took place, Roslina A. Djalil said, responsible for the police responsible for the application of the law of the Sharia in Banda Aceh.
A passerby “saw suspicious people and reported it,” according to Roslina A. Djalil.
Amnesty International condemned this sanction. “The criminalization of homosexual relations … does not take place in a fair and human society,” Montse Ferrer, regional research director of Amnesty International, said Tuesday.
Three women and five men were also whipped on Tuesday after being guilty of having had sex out of marriage, having been in close contact with members of the opposite sex and having participated in online games.
Human rights organizations condemn public impulse, but practice has strong support among the population.
The province of Aceh began applying the law of Sharia after obtaining special autonomy in 2001, as part of an attempt by the central government of suppressing a long -standing separatist insurrection.
Source: BFM TV
