Two Men In Indonesia Flogged 83 Times Each After Being Caught Having Sex

Two, yet to be identified men, aged 20 and 23, were on Tuesday, flogged in front of a mosque in Indonesia’s Aceh province for engaging in gay sex.



The duo were caught in bed together during a raid by vigilantes sometime in March 2017.

According to CNN, rights groups claimed the vigilantes barged into their room and started filming them naked as they begged for help.


The duo were found guilty of violating Aceh’s strict Islamic laws and were sentenced to 85 lashes. The lashes were then reduced by two because they had already served two months in prison.

The beatings began at 9 a.m. local time and finished four hours later. They were canned alongside four other couples who were found guilty of being intimate outside marriage.


A large crowd of observers cheered as the caning took place. “Let this be a lesson to you,” one of the men watching cried out. “Do it harder,” another man yelled.

Speaking to BBC’s Rebecca Henschke, one of the men, who was kicked out of medical school following the discovery said: 

“I just want the caning to be over and to go back to my family, I have been deeply depressed. I am trying to pull myself out of a deep black hole,”