Two Indonesians sentenced to 85 lashes for gay sex. About it reports Reuters.
The authorities did not heed the petitions for leniency on the part of the defenders. It clarifies the Agency, the Prosecutor’s office insisted on the appointment of 80 lashes, but the judge found the proposed sentence too lenient. They first applied the law on counteracting against homosexuals, adopted in the conservative Aceh province in 2014.
The defendants refused counsel and represented themselves in court.
Aceh is the only province in Muslim Indonesia, where Sharia is used interchangeably with the criminal law and same-sex relations are prohibited.
About a crime it became known in March — vigilant citizens told religious police that the men indulge in homosexual pleasures, and those detained. “This verdict will increase the anxiety of the LGBT community not only in Aceh, but others, especially conservative provinces of Indonesia,” — commented on the incident, the representative of human rights organization Human Rights Watch.