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Bangkok, Thailand

Ratchada night market at dusk
Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters

Banda Aceh, Indonesia

A crowd watches as Tjia Nyuk Hwa, an Indonesian Christian, is publicly flogged outside a mosque for playing a children’s entertainment game seen as violating Islamic law
Photograph: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images