Public flogging is a common punishment for certain victimless crimes in the Aceh province. Human Rights Watch has condemned the practice as "barbaric" and called for it to end. On Thursday, an ...

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 ...

OTTAWA - The wife of a Saudi rights activist, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes last year, said Thursday her husband's health had worsened after the first round of flogging and that he could not ...

Punishment is meant to reform an offender but in some jurisdictions, it must be meted out to whoever deserves it at all cost; even if it would result in death. An Indonesian man reportedly fainted ...

The death of Mahsa Amini sparked protests in and outside of Iran — Yasin AKGUL A prominent Iranian pop singer who made a song urging women to remove their headscarves said Wednesday that he was ...

Pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran's mandatory dress code for women, ending a criminal case against him that also included a prison term. His lawyer, Zahra ...

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 ...

A jury on Thursday acquitted Marty Small Sr. of all four crimes he was charged with, including aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of his teenage daughter. By Tracey Tully Mehdi Yarrahi, a ...