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The sickening punishment was carried out by the nation’s Sharia police in front of a baying mob, including children, who watched on as the woman cried out in pain.

Crowds watch as the woman crouched on the floor and was whipped for her “crime” before she was rushed to hospital.

The 30-year-old woman, only known as Mazidah, collapsed from her injuries inflicted by the masked enforcer, known as Algojo. which means ‘the executioner’ in Indonesian.

In harrowing scenes, 100 lashes were doled out to the woman who had been found guilty of being in close proximity to a man who was not her husband by the Sharia courts.