Aceh in recent years, drawing howls of protest from rights groups.

Earlier this year, Banda Aceh banned women from entertainment venues after 11pm unless they are accompanied by a husband or male family member.

Aceh district has also banned unmarried men and women from riding together on motorbikes.

A religious officer canes an Acehnese youth onstage as punishment for dating outside of marriage, which is against sharia law

A young woman is forced to kneel before a religious officer repeatedly lashes her with a long cane in a public punishment for dating

A large crowd gathered to watch religious officers deliver the sentence of lashes. Aceh has become increasingly conservative in recent years and is the only one in Indonesia implementing Sharia law



After being allowed to move forward in a lawsuit against Take-Two Interactive, publisher of the popular Grand Theft Auto games, Lindsay Lohan has crashed. On Thursday, a New York state appellate court directed a trial court to dismiss her lawsuit.



Lohan sued under New York’s version of a right of publicity statute, claiming that Grand Theft Auto V had misappropriated her likeness with a character named “Lacey Jonas,” who eludes paparazzi. She further alleged that the game had references to her star turn in Mean Girls and the West Hollywood hotel where she once lived, and that the publisher in merchandise has “used a look-alike model to evoke the persona and image” of Lohan by imitating a photograph that was once taken of her in 2007.

Rather surprisingly, given New