A married woman was flogged 100 times after she commited adultery in Indonesia while her male partner, who was also married, received just 15 lashes.
The woman’s flogging in the conservative Aceh province on Thursday January 13, was briefly paused because she couldn’t bear the pain, according to an AFP reporter.
Ivan Najjar Alavi, the head of general investigation division at East Aceh prosecutors office, said the court handed down a heftier sentence for the married woman after she confessed to investigators she had sex out of her marriage.
Judges found it difficult to convict the man, who was then the head of East Aceh fishery agency and also married, because he denied all wrongdoings, Alavi added.
‘During the trial, he admitted nothing, denying all accusations. Thus, [judges] are not able to prove whether he is guilty,’ Alavi told reporters after a public flogging for Sharia law offenders in East Aceh on Thursday.
As an alternative punishment, the judges found the married man guilty of ‘showing affection to a female partner who is not his wife’ after the couple were caught by locals at a palm oil plantation in 2018.
He was initially sentenced to 30 lashes but his successful appeal at the Sharia Supreme Court in Aceh reduced the sentence to 15.
Another man, who was convicted of having sex with a minor, was also whipped 100 times on Thursday and will also serve 75 months in prison for the crime, according to prosecutors.
Aceh is the only region in Muslim-majority Indonesia to impose Islamic law, which allows whipping for charges including gambling, adultery, drinking alcohol, and gay sex.
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Madonna isn’t planning to stop celebrating her birthday anytime soon.
The pop icon turned 64 on Tuesday [August 16] and has kept the party going in Italy – sharing a series of self-described ‘disturbing’ snaps with her online fans as she celebrated alongside her six children.
Adorned in a white top hat – decorated with a pair of red lips – and a skin-tight black ensemble, the Like a Virgin singer told her Instagram followers on Wednesday: “Welcome to my surrealist party where nothing is logical and often disturbing.”
The singer – who was seemingly speaking in a British accent – then shared a slew of Instagram Stories with her 18.2million followers, in which all six of her children could be seem partying alongside their famous mother.
Madonna is a proud mother to Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, Rocco Ritchie, David Banda, Mercy James, Stella and Esther Ciccone.
The family are currently staying in the luxurious Palazzo Castelluccio, an 18th Century Sicilian palace. The Queen of Pop has reportedly spent thousands on the celebrations and flying her family to Italy.
After an initial party on Tuesday to celebrate her own birthday, and son Rocco Ritche who turned 22 earlier in the month, Madonna let her fans behind the scenes of her second Italian shindig on Wednesday night.
The pop legend captioned snaps of strange white sock-shoes and the son she shares with ex-husband Guy Ritche as “Surrealism”, and posed in a kitchen with what appeared to be personalised crockery.
The mum-of-six then went on to post a breathtaking snap of an outdoor dining setting – complete with gothic-themed décor and artsy light installations.
When she wasn’t captioning the snaps of her children or the interior as “surrealism”, birthday girl Madonna wrote “tanti auguri” across many of her snaps – Italian for ‘happy birthday’.
Fans and famous friends clearly loved Madonna’s surreal and ‘disturbing’ party – with many rushing to the comment section under the trailblazing star’s grid post on Instagram captioned “Your Muthaa”.
“I pretended you were my mutha my entire childhood tbh,” Isaac Boots told the multi-award winning star, while one fan quipped: “Happy birthday my beautiful queen.”
“QUEEN MOTHER,” another gushed, as a fourth wrote: “Damn you look bloody fantastic!!!.
The artsy celebrations follow Madonna’s more traditional birthday party that took place on Tuesday, in which she wore a beautiful cream-coloured silk dress which was covered in a pink floral pattern.
She accessorised her look with plenty of jewellery including colourful bangles and diamanté necklaces. The constantly evolving star also carried a small yellow handbag and wore a pair of strappy gold heels.
It’s been reported Madonna hasn’t been afraid to splash the cash during her birthday celebrations in Italy.
Kash Tym Records, Ghanaian music record label, and Natty Lee took to the streets of Odododiodio, a suburb in Accra’s capital, to feed street children and the less fortunate as part of events leading up to Natty Lee’s upcoming music projects for the year.
In an interview with Mr. Emmanuel Quist Kuwornu, the CEO of Kash Tym Records and a businessman who also doubles as the Manager of Natty Lee, he stated that this will not be the first and last of such events for the people because it is part of their social responsibilities and that Ghanaians should embrace and expect bigger surprises from Natty Lee from now until the end of the year with back to back hit songs and world-class music videos.
Madonna has marked her 64th birthday celebrations by passionately kissing two female friends on camera while downing drinks, as well as posing with son Rocco Ritchie, who turned 22 a few days earlier.
The singer evoked her iconic onstage VMAs kiss as she posted a video of herself kissing two girlfriends in the back of a car.
In the video Madonna rocked a breezy blue and white patterned maxi dress, with her platinum hair long. She accessorized with chunky bracelets and layered necklaces.
She spun around in the gorgeous dress before landing in the backseat of a car, where she passionately French kissed the two glamourous women sitting on either side of her. “Birthday kisses with my side bitches,” she captioned the clip.
The moment was strongly reminiscent of her onstage kiss with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2003.
The racy video comes just a day after she shared wholesome family pics celebrating her son Rocco Ritchie‘s 22nd birthday on August 11. She he even gave fans a rare glimpse of her youngest children, twins Stella and Estere, 9.