A WOMAN screamed in agony and collapsed as she was brutally caned outside a mosque in Indonesia.
She was being punished by Sharia Police for being ‘in close proximity’ to a man she wasn’t married to.
The man, a fellow university student, was also beaten outside the mosque in Banda Aceh after the couple allegedly showed affectionate behaviour towards one another.
Nur Elita was frogmarched into the yard of the Baiturrahumim Mosque while a crowd of hundreds cheered as she was forced to her knees and savagely whipped five times with a cane by a masked man.
After the flogging she could be seen collapsed on the floor in agony before being carried off the stage to an ambulance and rushed to hospital.
The man received the same punishment but was forced to stand through his ordeal.
The pair had apparently committed an offence known as ‘khalwat’ which prohibits those that aren’t spouses from getting too close to each other.
Four other men were also caned for gambling which is also outlawed under the strict Sharia Law enforced in the territory.
Before the ceremony commenced the deputy mayor of Banda Aceh, Zainal Arfin told the gathered crowd that the public canings were a warning to everyone.
He said: “Take these punishments as a lesson.
“What has been done by these convicts should not be taken as an example and I hope these canings today will be their last ever.”
The province is the only one in Indonesia which enforces Sharia Law which they introduced in 2003 after the central government granted it special autonomy status.
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