A woman cried as she pleaded with a masked sharia officer to stop whipping her in a public ceremony in Indonesia’s deeply conservative Aceh province on Wednesday.
The 22-year-old woman, who was being punished for having pre-marital s*x, was among three people who were publicly whipped 100 times.
Dozens of people watched as the two men and the woman were canned in a stadium in Lhokseumawe, some 170 miles from the provincial capital Banda Aceh.
Flogging is used as punishment for a range of offences in the region at the tip of Sumatra island, including gambling, drinking alcohol, and having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.
On Wednesday, the woman and her boyfriend, who is also 22, received 100 strokes each after they were caught having pre-marital s*x.
The woman broke down several times due to the pain of the punishment, forcing the sharia officer to stop the canning until she was cleared to continue by a doctor.
