2 men placed publicly for hugging and kissing in Indonesia

Aceh band, Indonesia – Two men in the conservative province of Aceh in Indonesia were among a group of people who can be made publicly on Tuesday after an Islamic Shariah court condemned them for violating Islamic law embarrassing and kissing, that the Court ruled that it can lead to prohibited sexual relations.

An audience of about 100 people witnessed the road in a stage in Bustanussalatin City Park in Aceh Band on Tuesday. The men, 20 and 21, were whipped on their backs with a Ratán cane dozen times by a group of people with robes and bells.

ACEH allows up to 100 tabs for crimes of morality, including gay sex and sex between single people. Caning is also a punishment in Aceh for the game, drinking alcohol, women who wear tight clothes and men who do not attend Friday’s prayers.

The Aceh court condemned men to 80 attacks each after the Islamic religious police said they were trapped involved in what the court considered that they were the sexual acts of hugging and kissing in the bathroom of a public park, according to the judicial records.

Eight other people were public on Tuesday for adultery and game.

He Men were arrested in April In Taman Sari City Park in Banda Aceh after the residents told a police patrol that saw men enter the same park of the park. Police found men inside kissing and hugging. Before the meeting in the park, the couple contacted through an online appointment application, according to judicial records.

Aceh is the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law. There have been four Previous singings for cases related to homosexuality Since the province implemented Islamic law and established a religious police and judicial system in 2006. The change was a concession of the national government to end a long -standing separatist survey.

National Criminal Code of Indonesia does not regulate homosexuality But the central government cannot attack Shariah law in Aceh. However, the central government previously pressed to Aceh officials to drop an earlier version of a law that requested that people be stoned to death by adultery.

Aceh extended its Islamic statutes and the Criminal Code in 2015, extending Shariah law to non -Muslims, which represent approximately 1% of the population of the province. The verdict against the two men caned on Tuesday was the fifth transmitted against people for homosexuality since the law was implemented in 2015.

Two other men were publicly put in February in the same Aceh park after a Shariah court condemned them for having sex.

A coalition of human rights groups presented a petition to the Supreme Court of Indonesia in 2016 in 2016 that seeks a review of the regional Aceh regulations that allowed cancer, but the application was rejected. The Ministry of Interior of Indonesia issued a letter in 2016 to the governor of Aceh on the channel, noting that regional laws in Indonesia should be applied for minor crimes.

Canning is an corporal and Indonesian punishment has ratified a convention that demands the abolition of inhuman punishments, said Maidina Rahmawati, interim executive director of the Institute for Reform of Criminal Justice in Indonesia.

“That public sanctification, even the act of giving in, is contrary to several laws and regulations and also contrary to the interests of human rights in Indonesia because its exhibition is not good for Indonesia,” Rahmawati said.

The changing political dynamics played a role in the implementation of politics, Rahmawati said.

“Because it seemed that this was the right thing, he had to be done, he had to narrate to support the government based in Sharia in Aceh,” Rahmawati said.

Amnesty International issued a statement on Tuesday by calling cancer of the two men “a disturbing act of discrimination and cruelty sanctioned by the State.”

“This punishment is a horrible stigma and institutionalized abuse that LGBTQ+ people face in Aceh. The intimate relationships between adults who consent should never be criminalized,” said Amnesty Regional Research Director, Montse Ferrer, in the statement.

Aulia Saputra, a band resident Aceh who attended the road, said the punishment can avoid other violations of the Shariah law.

“I hope that with the implementation of this spear punishment, it can serve as a lesson for the criminal and also create a deterrent effect, so that such incidents do not happen again in the future,” said Saputra.

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