A young couple in Indonesia's Aceh province were whipped on Thursday after they were caught cuddling in public - a crime under the conservative region's Islamic law.
Hundreds of spectators watched as an 18-year-old university student and her boyfriend, also 18, were whipped 17 times each outside a mosque in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital.
Flogging is used as punishment for a range of offences in the region at the tip of Sumatra island, including gambling, drinking alcohol, and having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.
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