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Cheering Crowd Watches Caning of Indonesian Gay Men
The young men, aged 20 and 23, each received 83 lashes from a rattan cane.
As a large group of bystanders cheered and booed, two young men convicted of engaging in gay sex were caned 83 times each Tuesday in the Aceh province of Indonesia.
Thousands gathered in front of a mosque to watch the brutal beatings, which were carried out by men wearing dark robes and hoods. Abdul Gani Isa, a member of the Acehnese clerics' council, told the crowd...
ACEH: Gay men caned in front of crowd of 3000 people
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The men said they just want to move on with their lives after being caned 85 times
Two men in Aceh, Indonesia have been caned 85 times after being convicted for homosexuality and homosexual sex.
More than 3000 people flocked to outside the Syahuda mosque to witness a number of people convicted under Aceh’s Islamic Sharia laws, known as Qanun Jinayat.
The men named only as MT and MH are in the early 20s and were arrested in March....
