子どもをレイプした男にむち打ち１４６回　インドネシア・アチェ州

【東アチェＡＦＰ＝時事】インドネシアのアチェ州で26日、子どもをレイプした男（19）が公開むち打ち刑に処された。（写真はアチェ州東アチェ県で、子どもをレイプした罪で公開むち打ち刑を受ける男）
　宗教警察に１４６回むちで打たれた男は、途中で痛みに耐えられず中断を懇願し、医師らの手当てを受ける場面もあった。
　被害者の年齢は明かされていないが、未成年者のレイプという最も深刻な罪の一つだったことから、１４６回という特に多い回数の刑執行となった。
　当局は、最も重い刑罰を与えることで同様の犯罪の抑止につながるとの見方を示している。
　インドネシアの中で唯一シャリア（イスラム法）が適用されるアチェ州では、売春や賭博、不倫、飲酒、同性愛者間の性行為などが犯罪とみなされ、刑罰としてむち打ち刑が執行される。通常大勢の見物人が集まるが、新型コロナウイルスの流行に伴い、その数は減っている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/11/27-14:58）

An Indonesian man collapsed as he was flogged nearly 150 times Thursday for raping a child in conservative Aceh province, where public whipping is a common punishment for violating Islamic law.
The 19-year-old grimaced and cried out as a masked sharia officer lashed his back with a rattan stick in the town of Idi.
He pleaded for the punishment to stop and was briefly treated by doctors before the flogging restarted.
The man was arrested earlier this year on charges he molested and raped the victim, whose age was not revealed.
He was sentenced to 146 lashes, a particularly high number reserved for the most serious crimes.
The maximum sentence is meant to be a deterrent, Ivan Nanjjar Alavi, an official from the East Aceh prosecutor's office, told reporters.
Aceh, on the western tip of Sumatra, is the only region in Muslim-majority Indonesia to impose Islamic law under an autonomy deal with the central government that ended a long-running separatist insurgency.
Also on Thursday, a 40-year-old and a 21-year-old man were whipped 100 times each for having sex with underage partners.
Aceh's public whippings -- widely criticised by rights groups -- can attract hundreds of spectators, but crowds have dwindled in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The province allows whipping for a range of charges -- including gambling, adultery, drinking alcohol, and having gay or pre-marital sex.
It has wide support among Aceh's mostly Muslim population.