Photos: Man Faints as he is caned for having pre-marital sex

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An Indonesian man who fainted as he was being whipped for pre-marital sex today was revived to receive the rest of his punishment before being rushed to hospital.

Despite international condemnation, public flogging is common for a range of offences banned under local Islamic law in the conservative Aceh region on Indonesia‘s Sumatra island, including gambling, drinking alcohol, and having gay or pre-marital sex.

Aceh is the only region in Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country, that imposes religious law.

On Thursday, a 22-year-old man – sentenced to 100 strokes – pleaded with a masked Sharia officer to stop lashing his back with a rattan cane before he fainted.

He was revived and given brief medical attention and then the flogging continued. He was later carried off the stage by two guards and rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

An Indonesian man is whipped in public in the Aceh province on charges of pre-marital sex on Thursday, a serious crime in the conservative region's Islamic law. The 22-year-old man - sentenced to 100 strokes - pleaded with a masked Sharia officer to stop lashing his back with a rattan cane before he fainted. He was revived and given brief medical attention and then the flogging continued
At the end of the lashings, the man was carried off the stage by two guards and rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. A woman he had sex with and another man she also had sexual relations with were also sentenced to 100 lashes
Aceh is the only province in Indonesia to impose Sharia law as its legal framework. Rights groups have slammed public caning as cruel, and Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has called for it to end, but the practice has widespread support among Aceh's mostly Muslim population

Some 500 jeering spectators watched the punishment, many filming on their phones as some yelled ‘harder, harder’. 

The man had been found guilty of having sex with a woman who was also sentenced to 100 lashes outside a mosque in Aceh Timur district. 

Another man the woman also had relations with also received 100 lashes. 

‘This is the consequence they have to face for violating the law,’ onlooker Muhammad Yunus said.

An Indonesian woman is whipped in public with a rattan cane for having sex before marriage. Two men she had had sexual relations with were also whipped - one fainted halfway through before being revived to receive the rest of the punishment