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Authorities in the semi-autonomous region of Aceh in Indonesia sentenced 10 for the barbaric punishment.

Under the region’s Sharia law a judge ordered them to be given between five and 100 lashes.

Children could seen watching the punishment being carried out.

Aceh, a province on the north-west tip of Sumatra, is the sole Indonesian region to enforce its version of Sharia law under its Islamic criminal code of ‘jinayat’.