The year-old American who was caned in Singapore for vandalism says the bleeding it caused was "like a bloody nose. The teen-ager, Michael P. Fay, said in an interview on Saturday that the four strokes with a rattan cane on May 5 had left three dark-brown scars on his right buttock and four lines each about half an inch wide on his left buttock. In giving his first description of the caning, Mr.
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Judicial corporal punishment has been a long-time fixture in the south-east Asian city state. It was first introduced by British colonialists in the 19th century, but has been retained and even expanded by the post-independence government. Between January and October , the courts handed down caning sentences to 1, people; sentences were carried out in that time. Caning is only carried out on men between the ages of 18 and 50; a 1. The pain, these men say, is excruciating.
Caning is a widely used form of corporal punishment in Singapore. It can be divided into several contexts: judicial, prison, reformatory, military, school, and domestic. These practices of caning are largely a legacy of, and are influenced by, British colonial rule in Singapore.
Flogging is a common punishment for a range of offences in the deeply conservative Aceh region on Sumatra island, including adultery, drinking alcohol, and having gay or premarital sex. Aceh is the only region in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation that imposes Islamic law, part of a autonomy deal with the central government that ended a decades-long separatist insurgency. On Thursday, a masked religious officer rained down 28 lashes on the back of Aceh Ulema Council MPU member Mukhlis after he was caught canoodling with a married woman last month.