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 ...

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 ...

Two men caught having sex with underage girls were whipped 100 times each in Muslim-majority Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Wednesday, as one begged officials to stop the painful punishment ...

Given the choice between five years in prison and 10 lashes, which would you chose? Peter Moskos, a criminologist and former Baltimore police officer, claims that flogging (a form of corporal ...

British woman spared flogging, but practice of lashings not going away. Nov. 29, 2007 — -- A British teacher charged in Sudan with inciting religious hatred was spared the maximum sentence of 40 ...

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 ...

AS HE SITS IN A SINGAPORE JAIL, sentenced to an excruciating flogging for an episode of minor vandalism, 18-year-old Michael Fay can take little solace in the reaction from home. The draconian justice ...