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| Public punishment: The 25-year-old woman faces up to nine strokes of the cane in Banda Aceh province |
An
Indonesian widow who was gang-raped by eight 'vigilantes' as punishment
for having an affair with a married man, is now to suffer the further
indignity of being caned in public.
The
rapists caught the couple together when they barged into her house in
the northern Indonesian province of Banda Aceh and accused her of having
'improper sexual relations' with the 40-year-old man.
The
25-year-old woman's companion was tied up and beaten, while she was
raped repeatedly. Then the two of them were doused with buckets of
sewage.
It
was only after the terrified woman was dragged to a police station by
her attackers and reported for breaking strict Sharia laws against
extra-marital sex then it was learned she had been raped.
Three
of the vigilantes were immediately detained and charged with rape as
their companions fled - but that did not prevent police deciding to
punish the woman with a caning for breaking religious laws.
'The
woman and the man will both be caned because they have violated a
religious bylaw on sexual relations,' Mr Ibrahim Latif, head of the
Shariah office in the eastern town of Langsa, told the Jakarta Globe.
He
said the fact that the woman had been raped would not be taken into
consideration in determining the punishment for the religious crime she
had allegedly committed.
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| Religious laws: Her 40-year-old companion also faces the public humiliation after being caught having 'improper sexual relations' |
Mr
Ibrahim said the woman and her companion had confessed to having sex on
several previous occasions even though the man is married and has five
children.
Under
the religious law, the woman and her lover face up to nine strokes of
the cane each - and the punishmen will be carried out in a public place.
The
three arrested rapists - who include a 13-year-old boy - would have
faced the same number of cane strokes if they had been charged under
Shariah law - but they are facing charges in a criminal court.
The hunt continues for the five others.
It
is not the first time in Aceh that a woman accused of inappropriate
conduct with an 'unrelated male' - her husband - has been summarily
raped.
In
the same town of Langsa, a 20-year-old university student was raped by
three Shariah police officers in January 2010 after being caught riding
on a motor cycle with her boyfriend.
The
town's Sharia police chief was later sacked and two of the rapists were
sentenced to eight years in prison. The third, said the Jakarta Globe
was never caught.
-dailymail
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