Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Indonesian woman was whipped 100 times over an affair for which the man got 15 lashes, AFP reported. Public flogging is a ...

IDI, Indonesia (AFP) — An Indonesian man who fainted as he was being whipped for premarital sex Thursday was revived to receive the rest of his punishment before being taken to a hospital. Despite ...

Given the choice between five years in prison and 10 lashes, which would you chose? Peter Moskos, a criminologist and former Baltimore police officer, claims that flogging (a form of corporal ...

Flogging someone with a cane causes intense pain and permanent bodily damage. An Australian who was flogged for drug trafficking in Malaysia in the 1970s recalled that the cane “chewed hungrily ...

The sentence imposed by Judge Saul Solomon on Jack Nafte, South African Jewish farmer, of ten lashes, was executed today. Nafte was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and ten lashes for flogging to ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has postponed Friday's public flogging of activist and blogger Raif Badawi on medical grounds, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Badawi was subjected to ...

The planned flogging of a Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam has been delayed for a second straight week, a leading international rights group has said. The move comes amid mounting pressure ...

April 25 (UPI) --The General Assembly of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has decided to end flogging as punishment in disciplinary cases. The Supreme Court has directed the lower courts to limit the ...