Sentence examples for publicly whipped from inspiring English sources
Some Shabab commanders have publicly whipped musicians.
He noted that in Iran, an Islamist theocracy, prostitutes were publicly whipped.
Striking bus drivers publicly whipped those who dared pick up passengers.
Smokers, alcohol drinkers and women who are not properly attired are being publicly whipped.
He also suggested the Indian cricket board be "publicly whipped" before the Taj Hotel and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, two of the sites attacked by militants in 2008.
Her introduction to politics was brutal; at the age of 10, she witnessed her 82-year-old grandfather being publicly whipped until he collapsed in the town square.
The move was popular at first, says Sidney Jones of the International Crisis Group, a think-tank, but there was widespread revulsion when the authorities started publicly whipping miscreants.
In 2009, after a video surfaced of militants publicly whipping a woman, purportedly in the Swat Valley, triggered a wave of public revulsion, the army felt empowered enough to launch a major offensive against the Taliban in the area.
DRUSHKHELA, Pakistan — People here felt a surge of optimism last year when the military declared the Swat Valley cleared of Taliban insurgents, who had bullied their way to power by publicly whipping and beheading opponents.
They chopped onions, handed out humble (mince) pies, had their feet washed and were publicly (though gently) whipped.
Four young men have been convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, a human rights activist said.
