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In this document, Aceh Sharia High Court overturns the decision of Tapaktuan Sharia District Court to punish the defendant of a rape case with lashings and administers its own decision to punish the defendant with imprisonment. 

The Aceh Sharia High Court in this verdict overrules the punishment handed out to the defendant of a rape case by Lhoksumawe District Sharia Court. The initial punishment of 125 public lashes was deemed disproportional by the high court judges due to the involvement of firearms in the act. The court also considers the severe sociological and psychological trauma that the victim had suffered and changes the punishment to 125 months of imprisonment. 

In this verdict, Aceh Sharī'a Court of Appeals upholds the decision of Kutacane Sharī'a District Court to sentence the defendant, a thirty-five years old man, with 175 months of imprisonment instead of public lashing for the crime of rape that he had committed. The appeal was submitted by the prosecutor who disagreed with the type of punishment handed down to the defendant by Kutacane Sharī'a District Court. 

Aceh Sharī'a High Court in this verdict upholds the decision of Langsa city Sharī'a Lower Court in an incestuous rape case.