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CRIMEJul 11 · 04:00 UTCSCMP CHINAAisyah Llewellyn

At Indonesia’s sharia frontier, 21 lashes for a TikTok kiss ‘is our right’

An unmarried couple in Indonesia's Aceh province received 21 lashes each for kissing in a car and live-streaming the act on TikTok. The public caning occurred in Banda Aceh on July 2, with Aceh being the only Indonesian province implementing such sharia-based punishments.

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