A woman who was publicly lashed for having sex outside of marriage can be seen collapsing in agony during the brutal Sharia punishment.
The shocking images are from the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh where the unnamed woman was whipped 17 times with a cane along with her partner.
An official, called an Algojo, carried out the beating dressed in a traditional brown gown and their face was covered by a domino-style mask, reported the Daily Star.
The woman receiving the lashings was wearing a long white cloak and head dress as she knelt down in front of the watching public.
After several strikes with the bamboo cane she can be seen falling forward from the pain.
Her partner was seen staring forward at the crowd as he was also flogged.
Aceh is the only Indonesian province which operates under Sharia law - which sees rules governed by a radical interpretation of Islam's holy book the Quran.
For the most serious crimes under Sharia law like cases of homosexuality, people can receive up to 150 lashes and it is not uncommon for them to lose consciousness or receive hospital treatment afterwards.
In 2018, the local government pledged to end its policy of public corporal punishment, saying that future floggings would take place in prisons instead. However, despite that promise, the number of public floggings and canings has actually risen, reports the Daily Mail.
A man who was given a hundred lashes of a cane in Aceh, in June last year, was seen collapsing under the blows.
His crime was to have engaged in pre-marital sex and the caning was halted until he was revived and then then the whipping continued.
The 22-year-old man had begged a masked Sharia officer to stop lashing his back with a rattan cane before passing out.
Victims are allowed medical attention and he was treated before the flogging carried on. Then when he had been given the full 100 whips he was taken to hospital.
There is an elite all-female flogging team that whips women who have broken Sharia law.
The team of eight women have been trained to flog, show no pity and how to minimise permanent injury.
Banda Aceh Sharia police chief investigator Zakwan said: "We train them to make sure they're physically fit and teach them how to do a proper whipping.
"It's kind of an indoctrination that we give to them so they have a better understanding of their role – have no mercy for those who violate God's law," he added.
