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2010-12-01
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Human Rights Watch
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Human Rights Watch
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Policing Morality: Abuses in the Application of Sharia in Aceh, Indonesia

"Aceh, alone among Indonesia's provinces, has been authorized by national law to implement local Sharia laws derived from the primary religious sources of Islam ... Aceh's provincial parliament to date has adopted five Sharia-inspired criminal laws on issues ranging from charitable giving, to gambling, to regulation of Islamic ritual and proper Muslim Behaviour ... The two criminal laws that are the focus of this report ... are inconsistent with human rights law and are too often being implemented in a abusive fashion ..."

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