11.   Murderers are publicly executed, while thieves have their limbs removed and lesser crimes are punished with a public beating.

12.   Punishment for rule-breakers was often public beatings and in some cases a jail term as well.

13.   Students began to administer public beatings for the first time several years ago when they discovered non-students in similar masks panhandling under the guise of the parade.

14.   The punishment for defying these rules is public beatings.

15.   The punishment was a public beating because both were unmarried.

16.   The punishment for violating these rules is public beatings.

17.   The ruling Kenya African National Union, or KANU party, has denied involvement in a widely condemned public beatings of opposition figures last week, newspapers reported Sunday.

18.   The punishment is a public beating.

19.   Their movements also are severely restricted, and they must wear the all-enveloping burqa or suffer a public beating.

20.   They have ruled that the public beating is against Islam.