Adultery Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Flogging=== {{Main|Flogging|Judicial corporal punishment}} In some jurisdictions [[flogging]] is a punishment for adultery.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10890137|title=Five flogged in Indonesia despite human rights protests|newspaper=BBC News|date=6 August 2010|last1=Vaswani|first1=Karishma|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=20 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120111221/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10890137|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/01/world/asia/brunei-sharia-law/|title=Brunei adopts sharia law amid international outcry|author=Arshiya Khullar|date=1 May 2014|work=CNN|access-date=8 May 2014|archive-date=8 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508114549/http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/01/world/asia/brunei-sharia-law/|url-status=live}}</ref> There are also incidents of extrajudicial floggings, ordered by informal religious courts. In 2011, a 14-year-old girl in Bangladesh died after being publicly lashed, when she was accused of having an affair with a married man. Her punishment was ordered by villagers under Sharia law.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12344959|title=Four arrested after Bangladesh girl 'lashed to death'|newspaper=BBC News|date=2 February 2011|last1=Ethirajan|first1=Anbarasan|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=27 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127060404/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12344959|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12398757|title=Bangladesh village shaken after lashed girl's death|newspaper=BBC News|date=9 February 2011|last1=Anbarasan|first1=Ethirajan|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=5 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205134921/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12398757|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page