
After just five lashes a pervert caught having sex with underage girls cried out for mercy to the masked Sharia officer, but doctors in Indonesia declared him fit for another 95 whips.
Flogging is common for a range of offences in the region at the tip of Sumatra island, including gambling, drinking alcohol, and having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.
The two men whipped on Wednesday were arrested this year — one for having sex with his underage step-daughter and the other for engaging in relations with a neighbour who was also below the age of consent.
By contrast, a half-dozen men whipped this week for online gambling — an offence under Islamic law — received between seven and 11 strokes each from a rattan cane.
“We’ll only postpone a caning if the doctors say there’s a serious health threat,” local prosecutor Isnawati, who goes by one name, told reporters Wednesday.The other man quietly endured his punishment as blood seeped through the back of his shirt.
Usually, public whippings are held outside a mosque after Friday prayers.
Rights groups slam public caning as cruel, and Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has called for it to end.
But the practice has wide support among Aceh’s mostly Muslim population — around 98 percent of its five million residents practise Islam.
Earlier this year, Aceh said that flogging would be carried out behind prison walls in future, but some local governments have continued public whippings.
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