An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province has sentenced two men to public caning for having gay sex.

The couple, 24 and 18, were found guilty of violating Sharia law, which is strictly enforced in Indonesia's Aceh province.

While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia -- the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation -- it is illegal in ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning for having gay sex. The couple, aged 24 and 18, were arrested on Nov. 7, after ...

Two men talk with their lawyer inside a courtroom as they are being judged for having gay sex, at a Sharia court in Banda ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Aceh, Indonesia, sentenced two men to caning for having gay sex. Though found guilty, they ...

In a shocking ruling, an Islamic Shariah court in Muslim-majority Indonesia’s Aceh province on Monday, sentenced two men to ...

And such a policy cannot stand in the South-west Zone. To the best of my knowledge, Sharia laws have always been there for those believers who wish for them and some Muslims have ordered their ...

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He further opposed the proposed establishment of Sharia courts in the Southwest, arguing that Sharia, which governs an Islamic society, should not be extended beyond its existing presence in about 12 ...

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