BANDA ACEH: Prosecutors in Indonesia’s Aceh have recommended 80 strokes of the cane for two men accused of having sex in contravention of Syariah law, the first such punishment of a gay couple in the conservative province.
The pair, both in their early 20s, were caught together in bed by a group of vigilantes who raided a boarding house in the provincial capital Banda Aceh in late March.
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