Dozens of people witnessed the caning at a public hall in Banda Aceh. It’s the fourth time that Aceh, the only province in ...

College students were arrested last November after neighbours broke into their rented room and found them naked and hugging ...

One man, accused of initiating the relationship, received 82 lashes, while the other was punished with 77 strokes. And, both ...

Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned on Thursday in Aceh province, ...

Two men in the country's conservative Aceh province were publicly caned after a syariah court convicted them for having sex with each other.

The Acehnese capital's "sharia police" is planning to ramp up patrols and public campaigns to ensure compliance with Islamic ...

The couple, 24 and 18, were found guilty of violating Sharia law, which is strictly enforced in Indonesia's Aceh province.

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

Two men were publicly caned in Aceh for same-sex relations under Sharia law, while two others faced caning for gambling ...

In a shocking ruling, an Islamic Shariah court in Muslim-majority Indonesia’s Aceh province on Monday, sentenced two men to ...

The Banda Aceh Public Order Agency and Wilayatul Hisbah (Satpol PP WH), or "shariah police", plans to intensify monitoring ...

Two men in Aceh, Indonesia, sentenced to public caning for gay sex, highlighting the strict Shariah law in the region.