2 men publicly flogged in Indonesia for gay sex sparks outcry

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Two men were publicly flogged 76 times each in Indonesia’s conservative province of Aceh on Tuesday after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under strict Islamic law.Gay sex is outlawed in Aceh, which imposes a version of sharia, the Islamic legal code, but it is not illegal elsewhere in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.The men were part of a group of 10 who were flogged on Tuesday at a park in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, for a range of...