Indonesia: whipped
Two Christians were whipped in public on 27 February in Banda Aceh, the capital of the Sumatran province of Aceh, as a crowd took photos and jeered.
World Watch Monitor
Dahlan Sili Tongga, 61, and Tjia Nyuk Hwa, 45, were punished for breaking Sharia law by playing a game at a children’s entertainment centre, which the authorities judged to be tantamount to gambling. Tongga and Hwa were whipped six and seven times respectively.
