Monday's verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since strict Islamic ...

The two men, ages 20 and 21, were arrested in April after residents saw them entering the same bathroom at a park in ...

An Islamic court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, after ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province sentenced two men to public caning 80 times each after ...

Two men in Aceh, Indonesia were publicly caned 80 times each for same-sex affection, deemed a violation of Sharia law ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province sentences 2 men to public caning for having gay sex ...

Earlier known for moderate Islam, the country with the highest number of Muslims, Indonesia, is believed to be gripped by ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning 80 times each after Islamic religious police caught ...

The Indonesian province of Aceh has approved an anti-homosexuality law that can punish anyone caught having gay sex with 100 lashes, a lawmaker said.

While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia -- the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation -- it is outlawed in Aceh, which imposes a version of sharia, the Islamic legal code.

A gay couple were flogged in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province today, justice officials said, in a public spectacle lambasted by human rights groups.

Indonesia's Islamists have long sought to criminalize gay sex. The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), the vigilante group that threatened the now defunct Q! film festival in Jakarta, has previously ...