2 guys in Indonesia's Aceh province face caning for gay intercourse

By Associated Press

Published: 06:50 BST, eight Updated: 10:45 BST, eight April 2017

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Two guys in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province each face up to 100 strokes of the cane after buddies reported them to Islamic non secular police for having gay intercourse.

Marzuki, the Shariah police's leader investigator, stated Saturday that if discovered responsible, the men will be the primary to be caned for homosexual intercourse under a brand new code carried out years in the past.

Residents in a community of the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, reported the guys, elderly 23 and 20, to police on March 29, stated Marzuki, who goes through a single name.

In this Monday, March 20, 2017 photo, a Sharia regulation professional whips a person convicted of adultery with a rattan cane in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Two guys in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province every withstand one hundred stroke of the cane after buddies said them to Islamic spiritual police for having homosexual intercourse. Marzuki, the Shariah police's leader investigator, said Saturday, April eight, that if discovered responsible, the men could be the first to be caned for homosexual sex under a brand new code applied two years in the past. (AP Photo/Heri Juanda)

He stated the guys had "confessed" to being a gay couple and that this changed into supported via video photos taken with the aid of a resident that has been circulating on line. It shows one of the guys bare and visibly distressed as he apparently requires help on his cellular telephone. The second guy is again and again driven by means of some other guy who's stopping the couple from leaving the room.

Aceh is the simplest province in Muslim-majority Indonesia to exercise Shariah law, which become a concession made by using the country wide authorities in 2006 to end a yearslong warfare with separatists.

A Shariah code carried out years in the past allows up to one hundred lashes for morality offenses including homosexual sex. Caning is likewise a punishment for adultery, gambling, drinking alcohol, women who put on tight clothes and men who pass Friday prayers.

Marzuki stated residents in Banda Aceh's Rukoh community have been suspicious of the two men due to the fact they often regarded to be intimate, and had set out to seize them having intercourse.

"Based on our investigation, testimony of witnesses and evidence, we can prove that they violated Islamic Shariah regulation and we will take them to courtroom," Marzuki said.

Homosexuality isn't unlawful in Indonesia, but a judicial evaluation being considered by means of the Constitutional Court is seeking to criminalize sex outside marriage and sex among people of the identical gender.

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