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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Acehnese man reacts to flogging during public caning Tuesday, after being convicted of having a same-sex relationship, in Banda ...

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 ...

An update now on a story we brought you yesterday. The Saudi blogger who was to be publicly flogged again today - 50 lashes - has been given a temporary reprieve. Raif Badawi is serving 10 years in ...

Amnesty International is calling on the Saudi Arabian authorities to halt the flogging and imprisonment of a 75-year-old woman and two younger men for moral “crimes”. The Saudi Minister of Interior is ...

"Candle-lit #FreeRaif vigil for 31-year-old blogger goes ahead at Saudi embassy in London at 5pm today ‘Raif Badawi is still at risk, there is no way of knowing whether the Saudi Arabian authorities ...

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the supreme court announced, hailing the latest in a series of "human rights advances" made by the king and his powerful son. Court-ordered ...