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In Indonesia's Aceh province, an Islamic Shariah court sentenced two men, aged 20 and 21, to public caning 80 times each for consensual gay sex. The men were arrested in April after being seen together in a park bathroom. Aceh is the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia allowed to implement Shariah law, which permits such punishments. This is the fifth such case since the law's 2015 implementation.

Courtesy: WTOP Staff