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

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 ...

Four men who were caught gambling online have been publicly flogged with canes in a brutal punishment enforced in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province. In front of dozens of people at a public ...

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Elements of Sharia law have been part of Aceh's legal framework since 2001. The central government in Indonesia granted the use of the punishments in a bid to quell an independence movement in the ...

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

Banda Aceh. Two university students from Banda Aceh in Aceh Province were caught by residents engaging in a same-sex relationship in a rented room and are now undergoing trial at the Banda Aceh Sharia ...

This Indonesian province is nearly 100% Muslim and has been governed in increasing measure under Sharia law since 2001. That means sharing the good news about Jesus in Aceh is deeply needed but ...