Previously, in June 2014, four men were also caned for gambling in the province’s Central Aceh district. Between 2010 and 2013 at least 139 people were caned in Aceh province for Shari’a offences.
Source/Credit: Amnesty International
By AI | September 15, 2014
Amnesty International deplores the caning of five men on 5 September 2014 in Pidie district, in Indonesia’s Aceh province. The Indonesian government must end the use of caning as a form of punishment, and the bylaws that provide for it in Aceh province must be repealed.
The five men were each given seven or eight strokes of the cane as hundreds of people looked on outside the Al Falah mosque in Sigli, Pidie district. All of them had been convicted of gambling (maisir) under Aceh bylaw (qanun) no.13/2003 by the Sigli Shari’a court in August 2014.
Previously, in June 2014, four men were also caned for gambling in the province’s Central Aceh district. Between 2010 and 2013 at least 139 people were caned in Aceh province for Shari’a offences.
Aceh’s provincial legislature passed a series of bylaws governing the implementation of Shari’a law after the enactment of the province’s Special Autonomy Law in 2001. Caning was introduced as a punishment to be imposed by Islamic courts for a range of offences.
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