Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Indonesian woman was whipped 100 times over an affair for which the man got 15 lashes, AFP reported. Public flogging is a ...

Punishment is meant to reform an offender but in some jurisdictions, it must be meted out to whoever deserves it at all cost; even if it would result in death. An Indonesian man reportedly fainted ...

The man and woman, whose ages were not disclosed, were each given 100 lashes with a rattan cane in a public park in Banda Aceh as dozens watched. The punishment in the staunchly Islamic Aceh province ...