Police arrest dating couples
>From correspondents in Jakarta July 25, 2005 From: Agence France-Presse SHARIA police in the Indonesian province of Aceh have rounded up about three dozen unmarried women and men caught dating in public places on the weekend, a report said today. "All the violators were arrested on Saturday night because by 10pm they were still going out together in quiet places," the Jakarta Post newspaper quoted an unnamed sharia police officer in Bireuen district as saying. Those arrested included 16 unmarried couples and four unmarried women believed to be prostitutes, the officer said. Aceh province is gradually implementing Sharia law under a broad autonomy package granted by the central government in 2001 to curb separatist sentiment there. Despite being the world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia does not impose Sharia law in regions other than Aceh. Bireuen district was last month also the first in Aceh to implement public flogging of gamblers. The Sharia officer said all those arrested in Saturday's round-up were later released after they signed documents in which they promised not to commit the same violation in the future. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
