Couple caned 140 times for having sex outside marriage, alcohol in Indonesia

Sharia police caned a couple 140 times each in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday for having sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol, likely one of the severest such punishments since the deeply conservative region adopted Islamic law. 

Sexual relations between an unmarried couple are strictly



outlawed in Aceh, the only place in Indonesia to impose a version of sharia. 

The couple, a man and a woman, were struck on their backs with a rattan stick in a public park while dozens of people watched.

The woman fainted after enduring her punishment and was escorted to an ambulance.