Two men in Indonesia were publicly flogged 77 times for allegedly having sex, while around 100 people witnessed the beating.
According to Amnesty International, the men were arrested last November in Aceh after local residents reported them to the municipal police for allegedly having sex in a rented room.
Aceh is the only province of Indonesia where floggings take place, with at least 254 people flogged last year. 52 floggings have been conducted after the Covid-19 outbreak began in Indonesia, and so far eight people have already been subjected to the extreme form of punishment this year.
Two men were flogged 40 times each for consuming alcohol, while a man and a woman were flogged 17 times each for having sexual relations outside of.