Two men in Indonesia publicly caned 77 times for engaging in consensual gay sex
A crowd gathered in a city park to watch what was described by a Human Rights group as an absolutely medieval punishment .
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29 January, 2021.
Written by Peter Dunne.
CONTENT WARNING, CONTAINS DESCRIPTIONS OF BRUTALITY. Two men in Aceh, a province in Indonesia, were publicly caned 77 times in a city park after neighbours reported they had seen the couple engaging in gay sex and reported them to the police.
The couple were convicted in November when residents said they broke into their apartment after becoming suspicious of their sexuality and caught them having sex. They were then taken into custody and sentenced to 80 lashes each, which was then dropped to 77 lashes as they had spent three months in prison.
Mount Merapi spews hot clouds rising two kilometers above crater 28th January 2021
Column of hot clouds from Mount Merapi on January 28, 2021. (ANTARA/HO/twitter BPPTKG) Yogyakarta (ANTARA) - The 2,968-meter (9,737-foot) Mount Merapi, Indonesia s most active volcano, belched hot ash clouds sliding up to two thousand meters in the southwest direction or the upstream of the Kali Krasak and Boyong rivers on Thursday.
The initial eruption of pyroclastic clouds took place at 10:13 a.m. local time and had been recorded on a seismogram, with an amplitude of 69 mm and a duration of 175 seconds, the Center for Geological Disaster Research and Technology Development (BPPTKG) reported on its official Twitter account on Thursday.
Mt Merapi shoots up to 3,000 meters high ash clouds 27th January 2021
Mount Merapi seen from Kaliurang, Sleman, Yogyakarta province, on January 27, 2021. (ANTARA FOTO/Hendra Nurdiyansyah/hp.) Yogyakarta (ANTARA) - Mount Merapi, located between Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces, spouted clouds of hot ash 36 times on Wednesday.
The sliding distance of the ash clouds ranged from 500 to three thousand meters in the southwest direction, or upstream of Krasak and Boyong Rivers. These hot clouds were recorded on a seismogram with an amplitude between 15 and 60 mm and a duration of 83 to 197 seconds, head of the Center for Geological Disaster Research and Technology Development (BPPTKG), Hanik Humaida, said here on Wednesday.