The mother of one man fainted as she watched, the news agency AFP reported.įour other people received 17 strokes for extra-marital relations and 40 strokes for drinking alcohol. The men winced in pain and pleaded for the punishment to stop as they were beaten with a rattan stick on Thursday. They were sentenced to 80 strokes by a Shariah court last month, but were flogged 77 times because they had spent time in prison. The men, aged 27 and 29, were arrested in November after a crowd of local residents broke into their room and allegedly found them having sex. It was the third time that authorities have caned people for alleged gay sex acts in Aceh province, which was given the authority to implement sharia law in 2001 as part of an autonomy deal with central government.
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