This is the moment three young couples were savagely whipped in public after they violated Sharia law by going on dates.
Pictures show one woman crying out as she is repeatedly lashed with a cane at Al Furqon Mosque in the city of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Separate images show a man standing as he received the same brutal punishment.
In total, three Acehnese couples were sentenced to receive public lashes for violating Sharia law in a brutal new crackdown in the region.
Under the law men and women, who are not spouses, are not allowed to get too close due to the 'khalwat' offence and punishment is by public caning.
Aceh is the only province in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country that is allowed to implement Islamic Sharia law.
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