Welcome Guest   |  Login   |   Signup
JG Logo
Sat, February 4, 2012
Archive Search

Indonesian Islamic Police Jailed for Gang-Raping Woman
July 15, 2010

A government prosecutor hands over a whip to a Shariah police officer during a public caning in Aceh earlier this year. Two religious police officers have been jailed for eight years for pack raping a young woman. Prosecutors had demanded 12 year sentences. (AFP Photo/Chaideer Mahyuddin) A government prosecutor hands over a whip to a Shariah police officer during a public caning in Aceh earlier this year. Two religious police officers have been jailed for eight years for pack raping a young woman. Prosecutors had demanded 12 year sentences. (AFP Photo/Chaideer Mahyuddin)
Share This Page
92
5
0
6
Share with google+ :


Post a comment
Please login to post comment

Comments

balibeli
8:56am Jul 17, 2010

The laws reflect the mentality of the people who impose it. They are so socially inept and uncivilized to the point its shocking especially in this day and age. By nature we are suppose to evolve into more social, intelligent and spiritual beings. These guys seem to have hit a wall and are just sitting there. They shouldn't be allowed to reproduce.

cemf
11:13am Jul 16, 2010

It's all part of the Independent Aceh campaign. They will continue to act in such a loathsome way until the rest of Indonesia is happy to see the back of them.

kristono
9:34am Jul 16, 2010

The syariah police is inside every man and women.. No institution nor people is holly enough to be other moral police!

ChrisH
7:24pm Jul 15, 2010

Zee irony izz zo beautiful ya?

aditya_pratama
7:04pm Jul 15, 2010

They should also be castrated!


Banda Aceh. An Indonesian court on Thursday jailed two Islamic policemen for gang-raping a young woman in custody, a case that has sparked outrage in the deeply religious province of Aceh.

Mohammed Nazir, 29, and Feri Agus, 28, were found guilty of raping a 20-year-old student in a police station in January after she was arrested with her boyfriend under local laws designed to enforce Islamic morals.

The eight-year jail sentence for the two men was lighter that the maximum penalty of 12 years demanded by prosecutors who said the defendants, as sharia police officers, should have better morals.

But the judge defended the punishment.

“The defendants have never committed any crime before, they were always polite during the trial and they are the breadwinners in their family,” chief judge Lukman Bachmit said.

“An eight-year jail term is considered quite heavy compared to other similar crimes in Indonesia,” he said.

Indonesia’s Muslims are mostly moderate, but Aceh has special autonomy, and one of the ways it differentiates itself is through implementation of Shariah law, enforced by special Islamic police.

Rights activists called for the Islamic force to be disbanded after the incident, saying it did nothing but harass women about their clothes and humiliate young unmarried couples.

They also said the Shariah police were not empowered to detain anyone, and could only issue warnings.

Aceh’s provincial deputy governor Mohammad Nazar said the rape was an isolated incident.


Agence France-Presse