Public flogging is a common punishment for certain victimless crimes in the Aceh province. Human Rights Watch has condemned the practice as "barbaric" and called for it to end. On Thursday, an ...

A Mexican woman helping organize the World Cup in Qatar said authorities threatened her with prison and a series of whipping after she reported that she was sexually assaulted. Paola Schietekat could ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Under mounting international pressure, an Islamic court has reduced and indefinitely postponed the flogging of a 17-year-old Muslim girl who says she was pressured by her father ...

Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to immediately release prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who it said is at imminent risk of receiving 80 lashes following ...

Flogging someone with a cane causes intense pain and permanent bodily damage. An Australian who was flogged for drug trafficking in Malaysia in the 1970s recalled that the cane “chewed hungrily ...

The lashes to Roya Heshmati's body have triggered renewed condemnation of Iran's harsh punishments against women for alleged crimes against "morality." But the official reason for carrying out the ...

The Marafan Yamman Zazzau, Alhaji Mustapha Adamu, has reportedly been suspended for flogging an alleged homosexual in Zaria, Kaduna State. In a statement released by the Council’s Information and ...