Two men were subject to public flogging dozens of times for consensual gay sex in Aceh Province of Indonesia.
The men, aged 20 and 23, were arrested in March after vigilantes broke into their rented room to catch them having sex.
Hundreds of people gathered around the courtyard of a mosque to witness the caning Tuesday, which was the first time that Aceh, the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law, has caned people for homosexuality.
A punishment rights advocates denounced as the caning as "medieval torture" and escalates an anti-gay backlash.
Indonesia's LGBT community has been under siege in the past year. Prejudice has been fanned by stridently anti-gay comments from politicians and Islamic hard-liners.
Another Heterosexual couple was caned for adultery.
Two Indonesian men flogged 85 times in public for gay sex
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