A video has emerged of a woman being lashed in public with a cane in footage showing Indonesia's brutal Sharia law punishment.

The woman can be heard screaming in pain in front of a cheering crowd as she takes her cruel beating before collapsing.

Dozens of civilians can be seen gathering around an elevated stage and film the events on their smartphones.

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The masked man plays to the gathered crowd by shaking and wiggling his cane on stage

Dozens of civilians gather around the stage to film the woman being lashed on their phones

The masked man holds the cane across the woman's shoulder blades before whipping her

A masked man, whose identity is kept completely hidden, plays to the crowd by wiggling the cane provocatively near the woman's back.

He then draws it back and unleashes it across her shoulder blades for an unknown alleged crime.

The woman, wearing a white shirt and a salmon-coloured headscarf, winces in pain with every blow.

Between each savage lashing, she reaches back with her hand to try and relieve the agony.

When the man delivers the fifth blow, she collapses in a heap on the stage, to the sound of applause.

Three people, who appear to be paramedics dressed in green and one in white, rush to the woman.

With the help of two women, they carry her off the stage.

It appears she is unconscious when she is being carried from the arena, as photographers and civilians rush to take a picture of her.

The woman, in a white shirt and a salmon-coloured headscarf, reaches back in pain

It's not clear what the woman is alleged to have done, since the video was filmed in December 2015 and released by journalist Tarek Fatah, a vocal critic of Sharia, today.

He wrote: ‘This isn’t Saudi Arabia or Iran. It is Indonesia’s Sharia-ruled Aceh province. Lashing as public entertainment.’

Aceh is the only part of Indonesia that applies Sharia in full.

The footage comes a week after an Indonesian woman was forced to endure 26 agonising lashes as punishment for having sex outside of marriage in a similar video that surfaced last week.

The woman collapses in a heap after the masked man delivers his fifth blow across her back

Paramedics, who rushed to the woman, carry her from the stage and she appears to be out cold

The woman along with the man she was accused of having sex with, faced the brutal punishment as having sex outside of wedlock is against strict Sharia law.

Pictures show how the woman was forced to kneel on the ground on the public stage in front of a mosque in Indonesia's Aceh province.

Such punishments are quite common in some Muslim countries – often handed down for very minor reasons. In some places women can be lashed for being in public without a male guardian.

But protests against these countries are rare and when they do take place, there are far fewer demonstrators than the millions who marched against Donald Trump last month.

Yesterday, many expressed outrage online and suggested there are so few protests because the issue is ‘not trendy’ or because it is not politically correct to criticise Muslim countries’ treatment of women.

One wrote on MailOnline: ‘So cruel and disgusting. This is what we should be protesting about.’

Another added: ‘Where are all the women marchers and celebrities right now? Shouldn’t they be protesting this around the world? Shouldn’t the MPs be condemning this on Twitter?’

Another wrote online: ‘No women’s rights demonstrations outside the Indonesian embassy? Of course not, it is not PC to complain about the Neanderthal treatment of women by Islam.’