Flogging someone with a cane causes intense pain and permanent bodily damage. An Australian who was flogged for drug trafficking in Malaysia in the 1970s recalled that the cane “chewed hungrily ...

Public flogging is a common punishment for certain victimless crimes in the Aceh province. Human Rights Watch has condemned the practice as "barbaric" and called for it to end. On Thursday, an ...

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 ...

Punishment is meant to reform an offender but in some jurisdictions, it must be meted out to whoever deserves it at all cost; even if it would result in death. An Indonesian man reportedly fainted ...

Amnesty International has received information indicating that the flogging of the free speech activist Raif Badawi has not been carried out today on medical grounds. Though welcome, the postponement ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A teenage girl has been sentenced to a 90-lash flogging and two months in prison as punishment for assaulting a teacher, a Saudi judge said in an interview published Sunday.

The Saudi Arabian authorities should heed an international outcry over last week’s public flogging of the online activist Raif Badawi and abandon its intention to carry out the remainder of his ...