2 men in Indonesia's Aceh publicly caned for gay sex

Two gay men in Indonesia's conservative Aceh Province were publicly caned outside a mosque in front of thousands of spectators on Tuesday.It marked the first such punishment to be meted out to gay people in Aceh, the only province that applies Islamic sharia law, since a local bylaw against same-sex relationships went into effect in 2014.The men, caught in bed together by vigilantes in March, received 83 lashes each in the front yard of the Syuhada Mosque in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital.The men, aged 20 and 24, were sentenced last week by the Banda Aceh Sharia Court to 85 lashes. But …READ FULL ARTICLE