A woman and her boyfriend are whipped in public for violating Sharia law in Lhokseumawe, Aceh Province, Indonesia (Picture: ZUMAPRESS/MEGA)

These harrowing images show a woman breaking down in agony as she is whipped 100 times for having sex before marriage.

The 22-year-old was one of three people subjected to the brutal punishment in Indonesia’s deeply conservative Aceh province yesterday.

At one stage, the woman begs for the masked Sharia officer to stop beating her with a rattan cane.

The vicious whipping stops briefly but resumes after a doctor checks on the woman.


The woman broke down and pleaded with the masked Sharia law officer to stop (Picture: SIPA USA/PA Images)

The whipped stopped briefly while a doctor checked the woman’s condition (Picture: ZUMAPRESS/MEGA)

Her boyfriend was also whipped 100 times at the stadium in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

Her boyfriend, also aged 22, received 100 strikes after they were caught having pre-marital sex.

Dozen of spectators watched the disturbing spectacle at a stadium in Lhokseumawe, around 170 miles from the capital Banda Aceh.



A 19-year-old boy was also whipped so badly his shirt was soaked in blood by the end of the thrashing.

The teen will now serve five years in prison, while the couple will walk free.

A man winces as he’s whipped 100 times for breaking Islamic law in Indonesia’s deeply conservative Aceh province (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

A Muslim woman was whipped in public because she was found to have committed adultery which violated Islamic law in the city of Lhokseumawe, Aceh Province. (Picture: SIPA USA/PA Images)

Flogging can be used for a range of offences including gambling, drinking alcohol and having gay sex or relations outside of marriage

Aceh is the only province out of 34 in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country that imposes strict Islamic law.

A total of 34 countries around the world, including Singapore, Saudia Arabia, Pakistan and Nigeria, still use forms of judicial corporal punishments including caning and birching.

Many of the countries are former British colonies.

In December, two men caught having sex with underage girls were whipped 100 times each in Aceh.

Rights groups have slammed public caning as cruel, and Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has called for it to end, but the practice has wide support among Aceh’s population.

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