An Indonesia flogged today 100 times accused of adultery in the conservative province of Aceh, the only area of Indonesia which enforces Islamic Sharia law, while her partner, who denied the allegations, received 15 lashes.
The court sentenced the woman to a heavier sentence, as she confessed to cheating on her husband, said Ivan Najar Alavi, the head of the investigation department in the prosecutor’s office, transmits APE-MPE.
On the contrary, the judges they did not believe that they could sentence her partner, who was also married, to such a severe punishment.
“During the trial, he did not admit anything, he denied all charges. “Therefore, the judges could not prove his guilt,” Alawi told reporters after the public flogging of the accused.
As an alternative punishment, he admitted his guilt for “showing signs of love to another woman besides his wife”.
The couple was surprised by locals in a palm forest in 2018.
The woman could not stand the pain
The woman could not stand the pain from the blows with the whip and her torment was stopped for a while, said a journalist of the French Agency.
Also today, another man, found guilty of having sex with a minor, was flogged 100 times. He will spend an additional 75 months in prison, according to prosecutors.
Dozens of people went to watch the whipping. The scene was videotaped and posted on social media.
The spectacle was criticized by human rights defenders, who denounced the cruelty of this practice, which, however, is supported by the Aceh population, 98% of whom are Muslims.
In 2019, 43 men and 42 women were officially sentenced to flogging for religious crimes in the city of Banda Aceh alone.
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