Indonesia: Two men publicly flogged 76 times for homosexual activity
A hadith depicts Muhammad specifying the punishment for homosexual activity: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462)
Two men publicly flogged 76 times for gay sex in Indonesia’s Aceh
AFP, August 26, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
BANDA ACEH: Two men were publicly flogged 76 times each in Indonesia’s conservative province of Aceh after a court found them guilty of engaging in consensual same-sex relations under strict Islamic law.
Gay sex remains outlawed exclusively in Aceh, which enforces a local interpretation of sharia, while it is not criminalised throughout the rest of Indonesia.
The men formed part of a larger group of 10 individuals who received public caning at a park in the provincial capital for various alleged offences.
A rattan stick was used to administer the flogging separately to each man as a small crowd observed the punishment.
Their original sentences of 80 lashes each were reduced by four due to the four months they had already spent in detention prior to sentencing.
Local sharia police discovered the two men together at a public toilet within the same park where the flogging occurred back in April, according to Roslina A. Djalil, head of Banda Aceh sharia police’s law enforcement division….
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