Editing Corporal punishment (section)

===Judicial or quasi-judicial punishment===
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[[File:Map of judicial corporal punishment.svg|thumb|{{legend|#ca2c92|Countries with judicial corporal punishment}}]]
[[File:Taliban beating woman in public RAWA.jpg|right|thumb|A member of the Taliban's [[Mutaween#Other groups|religious police]] beating an Afghan woman in [[Kabul]] on 26 August 2001]]
Around 33 countries in the world still retain judicial corporal punishment, including a number of former British territories such as Botswana, Malaysia, Singapore and Tanzania. In Singapore, for certain specified offences, males are routinely sentenced to [[Caning in Singapore|caning]] in addition to a prison term. The Singaporean practice of caning became much discussed around the world in 1994 when American teenager [[Michael P. Fay]] received four strokes of the cane for vandalism. Judicial caning and whipping are also used in [[Aceh Province]] in Indonesia.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McKirdy |first1=Euan |title=Gay men, adulterers publicly flogged in Aceh, Indonesia |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/14/asia/indonesia-banda-aceh-public-flogging-intl/index.html |access-date=15 July 2018 |publisher=CNN |date=14 July 2018}}</ref>

A number of other countries with an Islamic legal system, such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Iran, Brunei, Sudan, and some northern states in Nigeria, employ judicial whipping for a range of offences. In April 2020, the Saudi Supreme Court ended the flogging punishment from its court system, and replaced it with jail time or fines.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-saudi-rights-flogging-idUKKCN2262UX|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425000301/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-saudi-rights-flogging-idUKKCN2262UX|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 April 2020|title=Saudi Arabia to end flogging as form of punishment - document|date=24 April 2020|work=Reuters|access-date=25 April 2020|language=en}}</ref> {{As of|2009}}, some regions of Pakistan are experiencing a breakdown of law and government, leading to a reintroduction of corporal punishment by ''ad hoc'' Islamicist courts.<ref>Walsh, Declan. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/02/taliban-pakistan-justice-women-flogging "Video of girl's flogging as Taliban hand out justice"], ''The Guardian'', London, 2 April 2009.</ref> As well as corporal punishment, some Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran use other kinds of [[Physical punishment|physical penalties]] such as [[amputation]] or [[mutilation]].<ref>Campaign against the Arms Trade, [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmfaff/145/145we10.htm Evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs], London, January 2005.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/opinion/03mon2.html?_r=1 "Lashing Justice"], Editorial, ''The New York Times'', 3 December 2007.</ref><ref>[https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2005/12/08/saudi-arabia-court-orders-eye-be-gouged-out "Saudi Arabia: Court Orders Eye to Be Gouged Out"], Human Rights Watch, 8 December 2005.</ref> However, the term "corporal punishment" has since the 19th century usually meant [[caning]], [[flagellation]] or bastinado rather than those other types of physical penalty.<ref>[[Oxford English Dictionary]], 2nd edition, 1989, "corporal punishment: punishment inflicted on the body; originally including death, mutilation, branding, bodily confinement, irons, the pillory, etc. (as opposed to a fine or punishment in estate or rank). In 19th c. usually confined to flogging or similar infliction of bodily pain."</ref><ref>"Physical punishment such as caning or flogging" – Concise Oxford Dictionary.</ref><ref>"... inflicted on the body, esp. by beating." – Oxford American Dictionary of Current English.</ref><ref name="arnoldbaker">"mostly a euphemism for the enforcement of discipline by applying canes, whips or birches to the buttocks." – Charles Arnold-Baker, ''The Companion to British History'', Routledge, 2001.</ref><ref>"Physical punishment such as beating or caning" – Chambers 21st Century Dictionary.</ref><ref>"Punishment of a physical nature, such as caning, flogging, or beating." – Collins English Dictionary.</ref><ref>[http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861688382/corporal_punishment.html "the striking of somebody's body as punishment"] – Encarta World English Dictionary, MSN. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090901160044/http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861688382/corporal_punishment.html Archived] 31 October 2009.</ref>

In some countries, [[foot whipping]] (''bastinado'') is still practised on prisoners.<ref>{{Cite news |url= http://www.forensicmag.com/articles/2014/08/confirming-torture-use-imaging-victims-falanga |title=Confirming Torture: The Use of Imaging in Victims of Falanga |date=6 August 2014 |work=Forensic Magazine |access-date=6 April 2017}}</ref>