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Links to the most important pictures on the WORLD CORPORAL PUNISHMENT RESEARCH WEBSITE

Note: Photographs on this website are of greatly varying quality. Those taken from old press cuttings are the best scans available, but sometimes the only copies that can be traced are photocopies of photocopies, or even printouts from low-grade microfilm. These are reproduced in the hope that a poor-quality copy is better than nothing.




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Domestic corporal punishment (parental spanking) -

Cartoons
Dummy demonstrations and artists' impressions
People who have received it
Effects on recipient

Illicit corporal punishment -

People who have received it

Judicial corporal punishment -

Cartoons
Dummy demonstrations and artists' impressions
Effects on recipient
People who have received it
Punishment in progress

School corporal punishment -

Cartoons
Dummy demonstrations and artists' impressions
Effects on recipient
People who have received it
Punishment in progress

Prison/Reformatory/Military corporal punishment -

Dummy demonstrations and artists' impressions
Effects on recipient
People who have received it
Punishment in progress

Corporal punishment in general -

Implements and equipment used
Background

 

blob Cartoons of judicial corporal punishment-

Jamaica: Cartoon of public flogging, 2004

Jamaica: Cartoon of public flogging, 2005

Russia: feeble Australian cartoon about Russian scientists' finding that caning brings happiness, 2005

Singapore: New York Post cartoon inspired by the Michael Fay affair, 1994

Singapore: another cartoon on US reaction to the Michael Fay affair, 1994

Singapore: cartoon by Britt, reproduced in Newsweek, 1994


Uganda: cartoon about a case in which a man of 30 was caned by a local court in front of his mother, 2004

 

blob Recipients of school corporal punishment -

Abbott, Molly and Freda, aged 12 and 14, caned in front of school, UK, 1948 (poor quality photocopy from microfilm)

Acan, Winnie, 12, dislocated elbow by putting her hand behind while being caned, Uganda, 2004

Ahmad, Mohamed Asrul, 17, whipped in Malaysian classroom for talking to girl, 2003

Ahmad, Mohamed Asrul, better picture showing cane weals on his back, 2003

Andrew, Prince (Duke of York), now 40, spanked with clothes brush at UK prep school around 1970

Andrew, Prince, aged 8 in 1968, arriving at UK prep school at which he was spanked at about age 11

Baur, Jeffrey 'A.J.', 11, caned with fiberglass rod in US Christian school, 2000

Bigham, Jimmy III, c.15, paddled by teammates and football coaches at Texas school, 2002

Bunter, Billy, "Fat Owl of the Remove", fictional schoolboy in stories by Frank Richards, frequently caned by Mr Quelch at Greyfriars, UK fictional public school (cartoon)

Bunter, Billy, old- and new-style drawings

Cahanin, Megan, 10, paddled at school in Louisiana USA, 2001

Cahanin, Megan, pictured with family, including her brother who has also been paddled, 2002

Cameron, David, now leader of Conservative Party, pictured age c.11 in 1970s when he was punished at prep school with clothes brush

Cogburn, Travis Jr., age not stated, paddled at US school, 1959

Coulson, Simon, age not stated, English private schoolboy who supports CP, interviewed on TV about being caned, 1996 (also video clips)

Dennis, Jerod, 19 in 2003, US army private lost in action, held record for paddlings at his school

Dhanook, Michael, 12, belted at school in Trinidad, 1999

Dickson, E. Jane, pictured today, says she was caned almost every day at primary school in Northern Ireland

Downes, Joshua, age not stated, English private schoolboy who supports CP, interviewed on TV about being caned, 1996 (also video clips)

Duncan, Samuel, 17, relocated to Ohio from New Orleans school where paddling was familiar form of discipline, 2005

Ebarb, DeWayne, age not stated, paddled "regularly" at elementary school in Louisiana USA, 2001

Ekis, Katie, 18, paddled at US school, 1990s/2000

Farida Ikyimaana, 18, attributes exam success to canings, Uganda, 2004

Fashanu, John, former UK football star, now 40 in 2003, revisiting school where he was caned in 1977 at age 14

Foster, Gary, 13, slippered at UK school, 1981

Foster, Wayne, 16, Gary's brother, prefers slippering to detention, 1981

Gardner, LaDraun, 18, paddled at US school, 1959

Gaspersohn, Shelly, senior girl student paddled at US high school in 1981, shown at age 20 giving evidence with her mother to Senate hearing in 1984

Goetz, Brandon, recipient of birthday spankings at US film school, pictured in 1994 at age 14 with Robert J. Clark, principal who spanked him

Green-Ellis, BenJarvus, 22, Mississippi football star, paddled frequently at St Augustine High School in New Orleans

Hargis, Stephen, now 17 in 2003, paddled at City View High School, Wichita Falls, TX, at age 15

Hillman, Mark, Colorado State Senator, recalls with approval "board of education" being applied to his "seat of knowledge"

Holloway, Toby, 16, slippered once a term at UK school at age 13 in c.1975

'Honghong' (name changed), Chinese schoolgirl, 8, caned on bare buttocks in front of class, 2004

Jones, Brian, member of Rolling Stones rock band, frequently caned at school, UK, 1950s

Jones, Greg, swatted on wet rear end with tennis shoe by coach at high school, 1970s

Judkin, Omi, 15, paddled by football coach, Detroit USA, 2001

Katwesige, Margaret, former housegirl in Uganda who at 21 has gone back to school, where she gets caned the same as everyone else, 2005

Khan, Salman, Bollywood film star, spanked and caned at school in India

Kinnock, Neil, as a boy, caned at UK grammar school in 1950s

Landon, David, 9, caned along with whole class, 1954

Lichfield, Patrick (Lord Lichfield), caned at Harrow School in 1950s (video)

McGrover, Scott, first-grader, paddled at US elementary school, 1977

Manus, Samuel Lee, 14, paddled at US school, 2005, pictured with his parents

Manus, Samuel Lee, now 15, another picture, 2006

Mihalik, Rebecca, 15, paddled at US school, 1990s/2000

Mihalik, Sarah, 16, paddled at US school, 1990s/2000

Miller, Brian, 12, paddled at US school, 1987

Morgan, Travis, 12, paddled at North Carolina middle school, pictured with his mother, 2006

Morris, Colin, 15, caned at school in Australia, 1971

Noll, Glen, now 34, paddled "a lot" in fourth grade, USA, c.1963

Ngabase, Asanda, 18, schoolgirl illegally caned in South African school, 2005

Onsby, Shane, 14, paddled by football coach, USA, 2002

Ongarr, Tony, third-grader, paddled at US elementary school, 1977

O'Sullivan, John, age not stated, English private schoolboy who supports CP, interviewed on TV about being caned, 1996 (also video clips)

Page, Amber, 17, cheerleader paddled in Texas, 1999

Page, Amber, another picture, shown with her father

Page, Amber, in her cheerleading uniform

Petersburg High School football team, paddled by coach Bob Smith, Virginia, USA, 2000

Phelps, Don, now elderly (in 2004), shows miniature paddle he was awarded as trophy for holding all-time record for spankings at his school, USA, 1930s

Prince, Matthew, pictured at age 25, caned at UK private school age 15 in c.1982

Pshigoda, Jason, paddled at age 17 by US high school principal in 1996, pictured three years later

Rafie Jahisin, Mohd, 15, showing welts on back and leg from school caning, Malaysia, 2004

Rongotai College boys supporting caning head, New Zealand, 1981

Schauer, Jakob, 14, paddled at Texas middle school, 2005

Seconds, Egon, star rugby player, frequently caned at school in South Africa, 1990s

Simmonds, Lynne, 14, caned at girls' school, UK, 1976 (2 pictures)

Smith, Tyrone, 11, caned on the backside at UK school, 1976

Standridge, David, now 38, paddled and strapped at US schools, c.1960

Stephens, Alan, 12, spanked with beach bat at Australian primary school, 1976

Sting (UK rock star), shown as a teenager in 1960s when he was frequently caned at grammar school

Tuanku Ja'afar Ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Sultan of Negeri Sembilan, King of Malaysia 1994-1999, recalls boarding school canings in 1930s

Torbert, Tamara May, 15, strapped by own mother in principal's office at Texas school, 1977

Unnamed senior high school students being made to uproot trees as punishment, having also been caned, Swaziland, 2005

Walden, Jay, 15, paddled at Texas school, 2007

Warne, Shane, Australia cricket star, caned at school in 1980s (video)

Washington, Jennifer, paddled for being late to high school, Mississipi, c.2002

Webcke, Shane, Australian rugby star, in 2003 visits school where he was caned 21 years earlier

White, Alan, 13, caned with blackboard ruler in front of class, technical school, Australia, 1956, shown with his mother

Wilcox, Maureen, 9, caned along with whole class, UK, 1954

Wright, George, 12, strapped across backside at UK school, 1978

Yeh, Tom, now 41, caned at school in Taiwan, 1950s

 

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Caron, Roger, 17, one month after receiving ten-stroke strapping across his bare posterior in Canadian prison, 1955

Students of Heartland Academy, faith-based Missouri reform school with high level of paddling, 2003

Unidentified young drug addict, shackled to bed in rehabilitation centre at which each new arrival receives trousers-down strapping, Russia, 2001

 

blob Recipients of illicit corporal punishment -

Crane, Brandon M., freshman cadet, spanked with belt on several occasions at Virginia Military Institute, USA, 1998

Orlando, Janet, 53, spanked in front of co-workers as part of "team-building exercise", wins $1.7m damages, USA, 2006

Redmond, Terence M., freshman cadet, spanked with belt on several occasions at Virginia Military Institute, USA, 1998

Sheridan, David, now 24, publicly flogged on board replica of Captain Cook's sailing ship, Australia, 2001

Whiting, Keith, 19, caned and spanked by cricket coach, UK, 1999

 

blob Real judicial corporal punishment in progress -

Afghanistan: still from video showing woman flogged in street by religious police, 2001 (also video clip)

Australia: public flogging of David Sheridan (q.v.) on board sailing ship Endeavour, 2001

Bolivia: strikebreaking driver being unofficially whipped by his colleagues, 2005

Bolivia: striking bus drivers spank a scab colleague, 2005

Bolivia: another strikebreaking driver is whipped in the street, 2006

Botswana: Tebogo Malete, 27, receiving five strokes of the cane on his bare seat at traditional court, for housebreaking, 2005

China: "Whipping a lawbreaker", c.1900

China: bare-bottom caning in Wei Hai Wei, early 20th century

Congo: native flogging, c.1900

Egypt: public flogging of profiteering baker, 1950s

Indonesia (Aceh): man and woman caned together, 2007 (also video clip)

Indonesia (Aceh): public caning of man for gambling, 2005

Indonesia (Aceh): another public caning for gambling, 2005

Indonesia (Aceh): public caning of man for drinking alcohol, 2006

Indonesia (Aceh): public caning of young woman for illicit sex, 2006

Indonesia (Aceh): more photographs of women being caned

Iran (known at the time as Persia): public flogging of criminal, c.1910

Iran: serial murderer and rapist being given 100 lashes in public before being executed, 2005

Iran: public flogging of youth in Tehran square, 2001

Iran: public flogging of man in Tehran square, 1983

Iran: another public flogging, 2007

Iran: another public flogging, date unknown (also video clip)

Korea: photographs from c.1900 of public floggings

Korea: another public flogging, probably also c.1900s

Malaysia: caning of criminal in prison, may be a posed reconstruction but could well be real, c.1980s (for the real thing on film, see video clips)

Namibia (or possibly Tanzania), when they were both part of German Africa: judicial pants-down strapping in progress, c.1910

Nigeria: Mohammed Abubakar, 13, pictured being publicly flogged, 2002

Nigeria: Sanusi Isiyaka, 23, pictured being publicly flogged, 2002

Pakistan: man being publicly lashed in playground, said to be 1995

Pakistan: Muhammed Shah, 40, pictured being publicly caned, Karachi, 1978

Pakistan: public caning in Karachi, c.1980, high-quality colour photo

Pakistan: sequence of photographs of a public caning in sports stadium, 1970s

Pakistan: various photographs of miscellaneous public canings, c.1980

Pakistan: two views of Mohammad Sabir, 27, being publicly caned, Rawalpindi, 1978

Pakistan: public flogging by semi-unofficial court in tribal area, 1992

Pakistan: caning in a public place over a chair, 1987

Pakistan: flogging on the ground, 1998

Papua New Guinea (at the time just New Guinea): floggings of German civilians by Australian troops at Rabaul, 1914

Russia (Chechnya): caning by breakaway Moslem regime, 1996

Russia (Chechnya): another caning, 1990s

Russia (Chechnya): another caning, 1996

Russia: bastinado in the Caucasus, possibly c.1900s

Saudi Arabia: caning in street outside ad hoc court during annual pilgrimage, Makkah, c.2005

Saudi Arabia: public caning in progress, Riyadh, 1970s

Saudi Arabia: public caning in a town square, 1970s

Singapore: scenes in prison caning room during punishment session

South Africa: two small pictures of unofficial (kangaroo court) whippings, 1996 and 2004

Somalia: Isaaq, Jeylani, 45, pictured being publicly flogged, 2006

Somalia: Omar, Mohamed, 58, pictured being publicly flogged, 2006

Somalia: Woman pictured being publicly flogged, 2006

Somalia: Shogow, Mohamed, 19, pictured being publicly flogged, 2006

Uganda: on-the-spot caning by local court, 2004

Uganda: on-the-spot caning by local court, 2005

United Kingdom: prison flogging with cat-o'-nine-tails, c.1910

United States: pictures of floggings in Delaware, 1870-1935

United States: 16-year-old spanked by mother on the order of the court, 1938

United States: police station paddling of juvenile delinquent in Ohio (3 pictures), c.2003

Vietnam: caning, late 19th century

Zimbabwe (at the time Rhodesia): preparations for caning, 1970s

 

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Cuba: whipping of slave, 1868

Indonesia: prison caning, c.1900

Iran: boy being caned on the soles of his feet in workshop, c.1888

Jamaica: boy being caned in reformatory, 2005

Uganda: prison escapee being caned upon recapture, 2006

United Kingdom: army lad gets an unofficial slippering, c.2007 (also video clip)

United States: prison strapping, Colorado, c.1900

 

blob Effects of judicial corporal punishment -

Brunei (probably): scarred buttocks after judicial caning, date unknown

Brunei: school students look at picture supposedly showing the results of a judicial caning, c.2000

Guatemala: scars on back after whipping with peach tree branches, 2006

Indonesia: scars on back being treated immediately after flogging, 2006

Iran: weals on back after flogging, 2006

Iran: weals on back and legs after flogging, 2007

Isle of Man: weals partly visible on back of youths' thighs, a few days after receiving a heavy birching, 1965

Jersey: weals on teen boy's groin, a few days after inept application of birch, 1964

Malaysia: bleeding buttocks, evidently immediately after caning

Malaysia: bloody, mashed-up buttocks after very heavy caning (WARNING: extremely gross and revolting picture, not for the squeamish)

Malaysia: wealed buttocks during and immediately after caning, still pictures taken from genuine video of judicial canings

Malaysia: several pictures of various different caned buttocks, on show at prison exhibition, 2005

Singapore: scarred buttocks some time after caning (several different pictures)

South Africa: marks on buttocks and legs after lashes with sjambok administered by people's court, 1998

 

blob Dummy demonstrations or artists' impressions of judicial corporal punishment -

Country unknown: drawing of a juvenile judicial caning

Brunei: officials demonstrate judicial caning on dummy, 1998

Brunei: another judicial caning demonstration, c.2000

Brunei: yet another one, 2003

Brunei: and another, 2004

Brunei: and another, 2004, this time with members of the public invited to try their hand

Brunei: and another, 2005

China: drawing of bare-bottom caning in imperial court, possibly Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

China: painting of public caning, 19th century

Congo: painting of flogging, 1884

Germany: old print of prison flogging, possibly 18th century

Jamaica: scenes from filmed reconstruction of prison-yard judicial flogging with tamarind switch, 1960s

Malaysia: official photograph taken from filmed reconstruction of judicial caning

Malaysia: stills from filmed reconstruction of judicial caning, 1990s

Malaysia: pictures from Pudu Prison exhibition, including more stills from a different filmed reconstruction, 1997

Malaysia: caning demonstration at prison exhibition, 1997

Malaysia: caning demonstration using dummy, 1999

Malaysia: another caning demonstration on a dummy, 2004

Malaysia: a different picture of the above event, 2004

Malaysia: yet another dummy demonstration, c.2005

Malaysia: and another one, 2005

Malaysia: series of stills in which a prison officer demonstrates the difference between caning under Syriah law and caning under criminal code, 2005

Singapore: official diagram of caning procedure, 1994

Singapore: Asiaweek diagram of caning procedure, 1994

Singapore: posed picture on book cover purportedly reconstructing caning of Michael Fay, 1994

Singapore: prison officer demonstrating caning on dummy, 1994

South Korea: modern re-enactment by museum visitors of ancient flogging punishment

United Kingdom: inaccurate re-enactment of Scottish juvenile birching

United Kingdom: staged reconstruction of prison flogging, from an unusually accurate film, 1948

United Kingdom: prison flogging, 1958, probably a posed scene from a film

United Kingdom: drawing of police administering birching to a boy as ordered by magistrates court, pre-1948

United States: artist's coloured drawing of courtroom spanking of teens in Indiana, 1962

 

blob Dummy demonstrations or artists' impressions of prison, military or reformatory corporal punishment -

Canada: artist's impression of reformatory strapping, 1960

India: dummy of flogging at cellular jail, Andaman Islands

United Kingdom: artist's impression of a senior Approved School (reformatory) inmate being officially caned, c.1960s

United Kingdom: artist's impression of flogging of junior seaman over the bare breech on board ship, c.1850

United States: prison warden demonstrates flogging with strap, 1951

 

blob Effects of reformatory corporal punishment -

United Kingdom: bruised buttocks of teenage boy shortly after caning at Court Lees Approved School, 1967

 

blob Dummy demonstrations or artists' impressions of school corporal punishment -

Canada: posed photograph of child being strapped on the hand

Germany: posed photograph of student bending over for pretend caning demonstration in a school museum, c. 2000

Germany: another, rather less authentic-looking, caning demonstration in a school museum

Germany: scene of supposed school caning, staged for a play

Germany: boy, 11, pretends to be caned as photo stunt for ceremony of putting school cane in museum, Munich, 1970

Myanmar (Burma): posed photograph of schoolgirl holding hands out for rulering, 2004

South Korea: youth members of Democratic Labour Party give a mock caning demonstration as part of their campaign against CP, 2006

United Kingdom: drawing of schoolboy about to be caned in classroom, c.1900

United Kingdom: artist's impression, not necessarily authentic, of a student being birched in front of the school in a traditional private (so-called "public") boys' school, from a rather unreliable book first published in 1941

United Kingdom: silly posed picture of schoolboy pretending to be caned on the hand

United Kingdom: drawing of an Eton Pop-tanning in progress, as practised until about 1970

United Kingdom: drawing in silhouette of traditional English school caning by headmaster

United Kingdom: photograph of student bending over for a rulering at front of class, but it's all in fun (I think), boys' secondary school, 1970

United Kingdom: posed picture of Scottish primary school tawse in use

United States: pretend paddling of senior student at a high school in Arkansas, posed for jocular effect, c.2005

United States: 19th-century school caning re-enacted for a modern play

United States: child receiving over-the-knee paddling with "the board of education", presumably a posed picture, possibly c.1900

United States: senior girl student paddles senior boy student on "student takeover day", high school, Kentucky, 1971

United States: posed photograph of elementary student being paddled in front of country schoolhouse, allegedly in 1915

United States: posed press photograph of student being paddled, 1987

United States: posed press photograph of schoolgirl clutching bottom as though just paddled, 2004

 

blob Real school corporal punishment in progress -

Ecuador: senior student given the belt (also video clip)

Germany: classroom caning of elementary schoolboy, 1960s (possibly a scene from a film, but might be real)

Ghana: girl student being caned in classroom, c.2002

Jamaica: classroom strapping of girl on hand, undated file picture (possibly posed but might be real)

Japan: classroom caning with bamboo sword, 1970s

Japan: several classroom canings, and boys clutching buttocks in anticipation as they wait in line to be caned, 1970s

Liberia: President Taylor caning his own daughter in front of class, 2001

Malaysia: secondary student receiving the cane in school office while another awaits his turn, 2003 (might be posed, but quite possibly real) (for the real thing captured on film, see video clips)

Malaysia: another boy being caned in the same school office, presumably at the same session as above, 2003

Pakistan: boys caned in schoolyard (also video clip)

Singapore: secondary school boy being caned on stage in front of whole school, c.2005 (also video clip)

Singapore: secondary student gets two strokes of the cane in front of his class, c.2006 (also video clip)

South Africa: boy being caned in elementary classroom, 1999

South Africa: unidentified pictures of illegal punishment with plastic ruler (possibly posed but might be real), 2002

South Korea: schoolgirls being caned, cellphone captures, 2000s (also video clips)

South Korea: mass punishment of students outside school, not clear whether it includes CP, 2000s

South Korea: schoolboys show results of being caned on back of thighs, 2000s

Taiwan: junior high school boy being paddled in front of class, captured on video phone, 2005 (and see video clips)

Taiwan: middle school students being paddled on the hand, seen by camera phone through classroom window, c.2004

Thailand: schoolgirls caned, 2000s (also video clip)

Uganda: junior boys queueing up to receive a caning, c.2005

Uganda: senior girl student being caned in presence of parents, 2003

United States (probably): over-the-knee switching at front of class, early 20th century(?)

United States: high school footballer being paddled for poor grades while teammates watch, 2001

United States: paddle swat being delivered to unseen Louisiana school student, c.2006 (also video clip)

United States: paddling of high school student in Mississippi, c.2007 (also video clip) new!

United States: elementary student being paddled in school cafeteria, 2001

United States: whacking with a stick on school stage, possibly c.1910, probably only a "birthday spanking"

United States: paddling of high school boy, Texas, 1977

United States (possibly): female student supposedly receives ruler over knuckles, probably a posed picture, date and purpose unknown

Zimbabwe (possibly): secondary student receives "six of the best" in front of class (also video clip)

 

blob Cartoons of school corporal punishment-

Canada: cartoon of school strap and frightened student, 2003

India: cartoon of bad-tempered schoolmaster brandishing cane at kids, 2003

Kenya: cartoon of schoolboy being caned in front of class, 1999

Malaysia: cartoon by "Lat" on controversy over school discipline, 2000

New Zealand: 2 cartoons on Rongotai College "video caning" controversy, 1981

Uganda: Cartoon of girl being caned at front of class, 2003

United Kingdom: Belsky cartoon on sexual equality (girls to be caned as well as boys), 1976

United Kingdom: David Langdon cartoon "If 'e's naughty ...", 1955

United Kingdom: slippering of prep school boy, Speaking Clock advert, 1937

United States: cartoon of school whipping implements accompanying article on Supreme Court ruling, 1977

United States: "A Maine Schoolmarm Spanks a Young Man who Would not Obey the Rules", old cartoon of classroom paddling, source and date not stated, poss. 19th century

 

blob Effects of school corporal punishment -

Australia: buttocks of Alan Stephens, 12, after being punished with beach bat, 1976

Malaysia: buttocks of Mohd Ashrul Abdul Razak, 12, after classroom caning, 1998

South Africa: unidentified boy's buttocks after punishment with sjambok, Cefups Academy, Mpumalanga, 2001

South Africa: buttocks of Johnny Buckingham, 15, after "six of the best", 1989 (poor quality photo)

South Africa: buttocks of Mornè, 17, after headmaster's caning, 1989 (v. poor quality photo)

Thailand: schoolboy shows caning marks on his bottom, c.1998

United Kingdom: buttocks of Barry Tavner, 13, after headmaster's caning, 1987

United Kingdom: another shot of Barry Tavner's bruised bottom, 1987

United States: bruised right buttock of unidentified schoolboy said to be result of 1990s paddling

United States: slightly reddened buttock of Kimberley Garza's unnamed 13-year-old son as a result of paddling by gym teacher, 2004

United States: right buttock of Jay Walden, 15, after receiving 3-swat paddling at Texas school, 2007

 

blob Cartoons of domestic corporal punishment-

Canada: "The Supreme Court ... the ever popular woodshed", cartoon by Corrigan on Supreme Court ruling on spanking, 2004

Canada: "Don't forget to keep it transitory and trifling!", cartoon by Clement on Supreme Court ruling on spanking, 2004

Canada: "La Cour suprême permet la fessée, mais trouve déraisonable de frapper un enfant à la tête!", cartoon by Garnotte on Supreme Court ruling on spanking, 2004

United Kingdom: Dennis the Menace gets the slipper again, frame from strip in The Beano

United Kingdom: cartoon of mother spanking boy, 2004

United Kingdom: "Go to bed or the Harry Potter book gets it", cartoon by Matt, 2004

United Kingdom: Spanking camera, cartoon by David Austin, 2004

United States: cartoon of mother spanking boy, 2000

United States: cartoon of parentally spanked brat, 2000

United States (probably): cartoon of multiple domestic whipping, possible c.1900

United States: father spanks boy, Shinola advert, 1948

United States: 'The Boondocks' comic strip on threat of paternal strapping, by Aaron McGruder, 2004

United States: another 'The Boondocks' episode, same subject, 2004

United States: 'Curtis' comic strip on parental spanking, by Ray Billingsley, 2006

United States: cartoon illustrating article on "The Economics of Spanking", 2002

 

blob Recipients of domestic corporal punishment -

Chia Ying, 8, caned by father for running away from home, Singapore, 2005

"Church of God" family members, Canada, 2001

Kindle, Sergio, 18, college football star, paddled by father, USA, 2006

Morgan (aka Plonka), William and Douglas, brothers aged 9 and 10 respectively, after running away from home, arriving back for promised parental spanking, 1974

Salvati, Bobby, 15, shown with his father Joey, who recently paddled him, and holding the paddle, USA, 2002

SikHanyiso, Princess, 17, daughter of Swazi king, whipped by palace official, pictured in traditional garb for annual ceremonial dance of "maidens", Swaziland, 2005

SikHanyiso, Princess, another picture, in Western dress, 2005

Sons of Acting Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, aged 10, 12 and 13, shown with their father, who occasionally spanks them, Singapore, 2004

Tan Chia Khee, Jeremy, 10, caned by father for running away from home, Singapore, 2005

Walker, Calvin, 17, high school footballer, brother of Sergio Kindle (q.v.), paddled by father, USA, 2006

 

blob Effects of domestic corporal punishment -

8-year-old shows red marks on his back after belting by father, USA, 2007

 

blob Dummy demonstrations or artists' impressions of domestic corporal punishment -

Australia: posed photograph of young boy's over-the-knee spanking by father, possibly 1960s

Canada: father paddles young boy with what might be a hair brush, 2003 (also video clip)

United States: young boy gets spanked over father's knee, c.1960s, possibly a scene from a film

United States?: posed picture of small boy bending over to be paddled with a table-tennis bat, date unknown

United States: posed press photograph of teen boy's over-the-knee spanking by father, 1997

United States: a father paddles his son, 1897

United States (probably): man paddles small boy, jocular posed picture artificially coloured, possibly c.1900

United States (probably): over-the-knee spanking, posed stereoscopic picture, possibly c.1900

United States: boy getting spanked by mother, c.1896

United States: boy is spanked by father, probably posed, c.2005

United States: small boy receives over-the-knee spanking, posed picture, possibly 1960s

United States: demonstration by Rev. Arthur Allen Jnr of whipping of 14-year-old boy in church, 2002

 

blob Implements and equipment used -

Unspecified country in North Africa, Schoolboys with paddles with which they are allegedly spanked, 2000s

Mythical spanking machines as imagined by various artists, 19th and 20th centuries

Australia, leather lash used on juveniles, c.1870

Australia, timber whipping stool for boys, c.1870

Australia, leather lash for the punishment of boys at Point Puer, c.1840

Australia, cat-o'-nine-tails, date unknown

Australia, flogging frame and implements on display in museum, date unknown

Australia, same flogging frame and implements as above, different views

Australia, different flogging frame in another museum (two different views)

Australia, cane borrowed from police barracks for court-ordered police-supervised caning of two teen boys, 1956

Australia, cane being waved by teacher at kids, 1970s

Australia, strap used at Kostka Hall boarding school for boys, Victoria, 1980s

Austria, whipping bench, date unknown

Canada, big paddle said to be in daily use at St John's School, tough boarding school for boys in Alberta, 2002

Canada, leather strap used for prison "paddlings", 1960s

Canada, paddling table over which prisoners were bent to receive judicial corporal punishment in federal penitentiary, 1903 to 1968

Canada, much clearer picture of the paddling table over which prisoners were bent to receive judicial corporal punishment in federal penitentiary, 1903 to 1968

Canada, "the machine" into which prisoners were secured for paddling in Ontario provincial institutions, 1950s (poor-quality photograph)

Canada, "the machine" into which prisoners were secured for paddling in Ontario provincial institutions, 1950s (clear computer-generated b/w drawing from the photograph)

Canada, "the machine" into which prisoners were secured for paddling in Ontario provincial institutions, 1950s (artist's impression in colour)

Canada, whipping frame and cat-o-nine-tails (applied to the upper back) sometimes used in judicial CP sentences instead of the leather paddle - picture from a museum, source of caption unknown, but the facts appear to be correct

Canada, school paddle signed by recipients, from a high school in Vancouver, c.1950s

Canada, typical school straps

Canada, boards used to paddle students in illicit high school hazing, 2003

Canada, whipping post, c.1700

Germany, School cane, allegedly the last in use in Bavaria, newly consigned to museum, 1970

Germany, Prügelbock (whipping trestle) in a prison in Lower Saxony, used until 1913

Germany, whipping bench, cane and birch in prison museum, possibly 19th century

Ghana, bulk supply of canes allegedly for use in schools

Hong Kong, caning trestles and cane on display in prison museum

Hong Kong, cat o'nine tails and punishment register on display at prison exhibition

Hong Kong, juvenile caning trestle in prison museum

India, flogging frames, Andaman Islands

Isle of Man, judicial birch in officer's hand

Isle of Man, policeman with judicial birch

Isle of Man, birches standing in a bucket, photo by Lord Snowdon

Jamaica, Strap at Charlie Smith High School being "buried" in ceremony, although CP is not being abolished altogether, 2006

Japan, bamboo sword used for canings at cram school, 1970s

Malaysia, A-frame used for caning

Malaysia, judicial cane as displayed in prison exhibition

Malaysia, range of canes on display at another prison exhibition, 2005

Malaysia, a closer view of the rack of canes on display at prison exhibition, 2005

Malaysia, array of canes in close-up in a different display, c.2005

Singapore, judicial/prison caning trestle, stills from government video

Singapore, judicial punishment canes on sale in USA, 1994

Singapore, domestic punishment cane for parental use

Singapore, parental punishment canes after use on 9-year-old boy

Singapore, parental punishment cane (incorrectly used to illustrate an article about school caning), 2004

South Korea, flogging bench at Seoul Folk Village Museum (presumably a modern reconstruction)

South Africa, cat-o'-nine-tails as formerly used for judicial floggings, 1950s

United Arab Emirates, a whip, which may or may not be the real thing, used to illustrate a press article about changes in whipping policy, 2007

United Kingdom, Scottish whipping table for young delinquents, 1909

United Kingdom, juvenile birching donkey at Cold Bath Fields boys' prison, London, 19th century

United Kingdom, juvenile birching donkey at Nottingham prison, 19th century

United Kingdom, oak birching bench used for punishment of juvenile offenders

United Kingdom, flogging stand in a Scottish police station, picture from museum

United Kingdom, flogging frame in prison, inept and unreliable drawing, possibly late 19th century

United Kingdom, 19th-century flogging frame, on display at Beaumaris prison museum in Wales

United Kingdom, official diagrams of flogging triangles used in prisons, 1894

United Kingdom, flogging frame from a prison, photographed in Dartmoor prison museum

United Kingdom, 1935 whipping frame from Wandsworth Prison, on display in a museum, together with its designer's drawings

United Kingdom, senior birch, as used on males over 16 until 1948, pictured in museum

United Kingdom, schoolboy attempting to destroy school cane on abolition of CP in Inner London, 1981

United Kingdom, school punishment canes being made at factory, 1994

United Kingdom, Wooden-handled tawse, apparently Scottish, possibly 19th century

United Kingdom, Scottish school tawses

United States, Arkansas prison strap, 1968

United States, Dallas assistant principal shows his paddle, 1991

United States, flogging of prisoner, poor-quality picture, c.1920

United States, Florida school superintendent holding paddle, 2004

United States, fraternity paddle said to be similar to paddle used in Texas schools, 2001

United States, Kentucky principal shows his paddle, 2001

United States, Louisiana prison strap, 1955

United States, Louisiana school paddle, now sitting disused on shelf, 2006

United States, Mississippi assistant school principal with paddle, 2004

United States, Missouri assistant school principal with paddle, 2004

United States, Oklahoma school teacher with his paddle, 2005

United States, perforated school paddle, source unattributed

United States, large school paddle with holes, bears some of its recipients' signatures, date and place unknown

United States, punishment straps at Denver reform school, 1941

United States, Tennessee reformatory paddles, and pictures of teen boy inmates who probably received it, 1955

United States, Tennessee school paddle, 2005

United States, Tennessee school principal with paddle, 2004

United States, Texas assistant school principal with paddle, 2004

United States, Texas principal Anthony Price with paddle, 2006

United States, 'The Rod', flexible whipping stick marketed to parents, 2005

United States, Witness brandishes paddle before Maryland House Committee, 1987

United States, collection of school paddles, 1975

United States, paddle lying on desk in office of Arkansas high school, 2000

United States, paddle photographed at North Carolina middle school, 2005

United States, school paddle hanging in principal's office, 1998

United States, school paddle remains unused in OR principal's office, 1999

United States, school paddle, provenance unknown, used by Florida TV station to illustrate item about school CP, 2003

United States, school paddle signed by recipients, said to be from Washington State, 1930s

United States, school paddle signed by recipients, from North Carolina, c.1940s

United States, school paddle, Texas, 2004

United States, school paddle kept in a Missouri school district though no longer used, 2005

United States, huge paddle found at premises of church-run reformatory, 1992 (poor-quality photo)

United States, large leather strap used at Ohio boys' reformatory, 1956

United States, rattan cane used until 1981 across school students' buttocks in St Louis, Missouri

United States, school paddle allegedly used in North Carolina, date unknown

 

blob Background -

Australia: boys of Frank Dando Sports Academy, one of the last schools using caning in Victoria, 2005

Australia: Newman, R.F., Senior magistrate, ordered canings for teenage delinquents, 1956

Australia: sailing ship Endeavour on which David Sheridan (q.v.) was flogged in 2001

Bahamas: Deveux, Kenneth, teacher who allegedly gave 12-year-old schoolboy 70 strokes of the cane, 1999

Botswana: Kenosi, Ndaboka, 23, sentenced to caning but went berserk as police were due to carry out the punishment, jailed for 18 months instead, 2007

Botswana: Mosarwa, Batshwentse, village headman, ordered flogging of woman, 2007

Botswana: Motshwane, Paul, President of Gerald Estates Customary Court, defends judicial flogging as best punishment for mischievous young men, 2004

Canada: Benditt, Aaron, the "Ryerson Spanker", jailed for illicitly spanking teen boys, 2001 (picture from poor-quality photocopy)

Canada: prisoners in yard after riot, shortly before ringleaders flogged, 1952 (poor-quality photo)

Canada: school supplies catalogue offering regulation punishment straps, 1971

Kenya: Kasolya, Nicholas Kaloki, teacher leading campaign to restore CP in schools, pictured with cane, 2006

Malaysia: secondary school boys getting haircut in lieu of caning, 1998

Malaysia: typical school class, 1998

Malaysia: role model school in Sarawak where canings are administered, 2004

Malaysia: McGregor, Dr Alistair, former boys' school headmaster, made liberal use of cane, pictured in 1961 with class of students and now aged 74

Malaysia: Ong Ka Ting, former school discipline master, introduced public caning to rid high school of gangsterism, now a government minister, 2006

Malaysia: Phua Seng Tiong, award-winning school principal, advocates caning but says the student must agree to it, 2006

Malaysia: Tengku Azuan Tengku Mohamed, award-winning school headmistress, has already caned several boys in her first three weeks at new school, 2005

Malaysia: Tiong Ting Ming, principal who canes students in front of school assembly if they are found visiting pornographic websites, 2006

New Zealand: Benson-Pope, David, Education Minister, was a teacher in 1980s, at centre of belated allegations of excessive canings, 2005

Singapore: discipline committee on patrol in vicinity of boys' secondary school at which bullies get the cane, 2003

Singapore: Coffee mug with cartoons and jocular references to judicial caning, probably 1990s

Singapore: Freehill, Stephen, 16, escaped judicial caning, 1994

Singapore: Gopal, Saminathan, secondary headmaster who caned 41 boys at one go, 2001

Singapore: Michael Fay's natural father, with picture of Michael, 1994

Singapore: Michael Fay's mother, 1994

Singapore: Michael Fay's lawyer, with journalists, 1994

Singapore: errant teen boys being made to do pushups at strict reform camp where they are also shown video of prison caning, 2002

Singapore: illegal immigrants being arrested prior to mandatory caning, 1998

Singapore: typical boys' secondary school, c.1996

Singapore: secondary schoolboys, caught on camera buying cigarettes and smoking, a caning offence, 2005

Singapore: Suparman Adam, secondary school principal, turned school round with more vigorous enforcement of caning, 2002

Singapore: Zainudin Ali, discipline master at a secondary school, job includes caning boys, 2001

South Africa: superintendent of boys' home who administers canings, 1972

South Africa: students give views on reintroduction of school caning, 1999

South Africa: Magolego, Monhle, leader of vigilante group which administers unofficial floggings to criminals, 2000

South Africa: Shangase, Sibussiso, secondary school principal, caught on hidden camera illegally caning students, 2004

South Africa: Volsteedt, Johan, Principal of Grey College, pictured in 2005, used to offer boys sweets after caning them

South Korea: senior schoolboys, being punished for smoking, possibly about to be beaten with stick visible in teacher's hand, possibly c.2000

Taiwan: Democratic Progressive Party policians, campaigning for the introduction of judicial CP, display a whip at press conference, 2007

Trinidad: Samuel, Brother Michael, retiring principal of boys' school, believes a spanking can change a pupil's attitude for the better, 2002

UK: Aukett, James, dentist cleared of spanking young assistant on her bare bottom, 1998

UK: boys of Dollar Academy (former caning school in Scotland)

UK: boys of HMS Ganges, Royal Navy training ship for boys, renowned for canings, 1962

UK: boys of HMS St Vincent, Royal Navy training ship for boys, scene of birchings, 1868

UK: boys, discipline master and cane at English state secondary school, 1978

UK: Colyer, P.C. Stanley, policeman who birched Dennis Craddock (q.v.) and another juvenile offender, 1943

UK: Dines, Miss Janet, headmistress who caned girl (2 pictures), 1976

UK: Court Lees Approved School, subject of official inquiry into excessive corporal punishment of boys, 1967

UK: Dines, Miss Janet, headmistress who caned girl (2 pictures), 1976

UK: girls of Heaton School, Tyneside, going on rampage after being told they were liable to be given the strap, 1976

UK: Guise, John Lindsay, headmaster who spanked senior girls on their bare bottoms, 1964

UK: Jeffs, Miss Audrey Margaret, schoolteacher aged 23, caned entire class of 9-year-olds at one go, 1954 (poor quality photocopy)

UK: Jeffs, Miss Audrey Margaret, pictured at court hearing, 1954

UK: Kendrew, Colonel D.A., Commandant of Army Apprentice School, UK, defends policy of caning boys aged 14½ to 17½, 1948

UK: O'Dwyer, Father, Magistrate who sentenced boys to birching, Sunderland, 1932

UK: Peverett, Robin, headmaster, spanked girl and boy students on bare bottom in 1970s and 1980s, pictured in 2000

UK: Pritchard, Ashley, deputy headmaster, slippered 'special needs' boys in 1980s, pictured in 2000

UK: Ralph Gardner High School, Tyneside, high in CP league, 1983

UK: Roebuck, Peter, 44, cricket coach accused of caning and spanking Keith Whiting (q.v.), 1999

UK: Roebuck, Peter, at court appearance for caning three boys, 2001

UK: 'Safe smack' video, cover, sold with strap for parents to use on kids, 1997

UK: Smith, Mrs Marjorie, schoolmistress who spanked senior girls with headmaster J.L. Guise (q.v.), 1964

UK: price list of Scottish school tawses, 1966

UK: Wildman, Eric, campaigner for corporal punishment and retailer of canes, 1953

UK: Wildman, Eric, pretending to cane stenographer on his visit to USA, 1952

UK: Wildman, Eric, police raid on his offices, 1953

UK: Williamson, Phil, headmaster of Christian school, fighting court case to overturn ban on corporal punishment, 2001

USA: Allen, Rev. Arthur, Jnr,, sent to prison for whipping children in his church, 2002

USA: four assistant principals at a high school in Memphis TN where their job includes administering the paddle, 2003

USA: Judge S.T. Binns Jr., juvenile court judge who sentenced teen boys to woodshed strapping, Virginia, 1963

USA: Bond, Troy, principal of private religious school in Wisconsin, accused of child abuse after paddling student, 2001

USA: boys of Briarcrest Baptist High School (paddling private school in Tennessee), 1975

USA: Burke, Doug, high school principal, paddled 12 boys at one go in 1996 for hazing, including senior football stars

USA: Campbell, Byron, high school principal in Alabama, ordered paddling of 28 students for haircut violations, 2005

USA: Canant, Leila, schoolmistress, used to paddle boys, pictured in 1923 and at age 99 in 2005

USA: Dominy, Charles Brian, high school senior, accused of paddling freshmen, 2003

USA: Fallaw, Chandler Scott, age 6, pictured with his mother, who took him out of school rather than accede to school's demand that she spank him, though she has spanked him before, 2005

USA: Fiedler, Bobbi, Member of Los Angeles School Board, "takes paddling" for press publicity stunt on reintroduction of school c.p., 1980

USA: Harris, Steve, principal of City View High School, Wichita Falls, TX, keen user of paddle even for trivial offenses, pictured with a class of his 10th-graders, 2003

USA: Lathrop, Bud, basketball coach, suspended after paddling players, 2003

USA: Lathrop, Bud, basketball coach, another picture

USA: McConnell, Scott, 26, expelled from college for writing essay advocating corporal punishment, 2005; was himself paddled at school in Oklahoma

USA: McIver, Bub, Assistant Principal in charge of paddling at a Texas high school, 1998

USA: Malone, Sam, former Cincinnati city councilman, in court for whipping his son with a belt, 2006

USA: Martin, James, police chief in Ohio who ran juvenile diversion program involving paddlings, 2004

USA: Murrah, Craig, policeman accused of spanking 18-year-old woman, 2007

USA: Oliver, Rev. Walter, 66, on trial for using belt on boy parishioners, 2003

USA: O'Neil, Justin, student at Piney Woods Country Life School, Mississippi, historically black boarding school where paddles swing, shown being made to do punishment push-ups, 1997

USA: Pashkowsky, Bohden, teacher, paddled 30 boys in one go, 1960

USA: Perry, Eugene, headmaster of charter school in N. Carolina, accused of assaulting 7-year-old student, 2006

USA: Prince, Stella, director of Florida charter academy, defends paddling of half the students, 2004

USA: Roberts, Dustin, high school senior, accused of paddling freshmen, 2003

USA: Sanders, Drew, 49, New York basketball coach, accused of giving teen boys pants-down paddlings when they miss shots, 2005

USA: Sanders, Jerry, 40, candidate for coroner, is in the habit of paddling his twentysomething cousins on their bare seats, 2003

USA: Sanders, Jerry (see above), another picture, 2003

USA: Smith, Bob, high school football coach temporarily suspended for paddling players, 2000

USA: Stanton, Greg, school football coach temporarily suspended for paddling players, 1999

USA: Surgenor, Robert, Ohio spanking policeman, 2000

USA: Thomas, Judge Herman, judge accused of paddling prison inmates, 2007

USA: Torbert, Mrs Ann, mother of Tamara May Torbert (q.v.), shown with belt she used to punish daughter in school principal's office, 1977

USA: Wallick, Tyler, Christian father, pictured with belt and son on whom he uses it, 2005

USA: Weitensteiner, Rev. Joe, leader of boys' ranch in Washington State, pictured in 2002, "legendary in his use of the discipline paddle" over 45 years

USA: Williams, Walter, court judge who paddled 18-year-old defendant in chambers, Tennessee, 1990s

 

blob Recipients of judicial corporal punishment -

3 Indonesian robbers, named in report but not separately identified in picture, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2007

7 Indonesian pirates, not individually identified in picture, 6 of whom sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005

7 Indonesian robbers, not individually identified in picture, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

29 unnamed illegal immigrants, 19 of whom sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005

37 unnamed illegal immigrants, 36 of whom sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

40 unnamed illegal immigrants, 21 of whom sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

A large group of unnamed illegal immigrants, some of 161 sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

A taxi driver (name withheld), 46, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Abd Muthalib Salong, 24, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005

Abdul Ghani Abdul Karim, 30, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Abdul Shahed Akbal Ali, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Abdul Wahab Che Pa, 49, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Abdullah Mohd Isa, 42, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Ah Lone, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Ahmad Rizal bin Hj Yahya, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 1999

Ahmad Sulaiman, 37, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Ahman Khaironi Ahmad, 45, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Ajmeershah Sadayan, 30, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007, pictured here at age 21

Alamsyah Jupri, 38, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2001

Al-Fallatta, Muhammad Bakar Yunus, age not stated, sentenced to flogging in Saudi Arabia, 2004

Aman Ullah Mollah Khorshed Ali, 37, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Amir, 22, shows scars on back after receiving 100 lashes for homosexual activities, Iran, 2005

Anandasayanan Mohan, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Ananthan Chelliaya, 40, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1998

Anatha Raj Ponnampalam, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Ang Chee Kian, 18, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Ang Chye Seng, 46, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Ang Meng Hua, 28, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Annandan, S., 21, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Ariffin, Mohammed Ismail, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Ary Sugeng, 25, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Azahar Abdullah, 31, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Azhar Abdullah, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Azman Ahmad, 24, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Azman Othman, 32, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Azman Pungut, 32, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2003

Badrol Zamanuddin, 39, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Balabagan, Sarah, 16, Filipina maid, caned in United Arab Emirates, 1995

Balachandran Bernard, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Balakrishnan, M., 36, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1999

Balamuguran, K., 26, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Balamurugan Thiyanamuthi, 19, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Baragang, Victor, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Basir Ahmad Halu, 34, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Beh Soon Hock, 38, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005

Beh Soon Hock, 39, after appeal against his sentence (see above) rejected, Malaysia, 2006

Beni bin Saleh, 45, shown having his scarred and swollen back being attended to after 40-stroke caning, Indonesia, 2006

Bijeh, Mohammad, 24, serial murderer and rapist, sentenced to 100 lashes before being executed, four different pictures of the flogging in progress, Iran, 2005

Bin Ali, Saifullah, 37, publicly caned in Indonesia, 2006

Bin Jian Ping, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Bridgewater, Andrew, age not stated, sentenced to flogging in The Bahamas, 2007

Busri Saal, 42, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Campbell, Franklin D., 20, immediately after 20 lashes of belt, pants down, in US court, 1963

Chang Ying Leong, Michael, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Chang Wan Chuan, 34, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2001

Chaw Aiang Wah, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Cheang Hook Tai, 43, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Chee Tat Fatt, 47, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Chen Weixiong, Jerriek, 17, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Cheo Wang Meng, Carl Benedict, 35, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Chew Ban Chuan, Richard, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Chew Eng Hin, Adrian, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Chew Pete Tzen, 33, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Chia Yock Siew, 43, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Chng Hock Choon, now 52 in 2006, sentenced to caning in Singapore at age c.35 in 1989

Chong Kooi Fah, alias Johnny, 39, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Chong Meng bin Hashin, 40, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2000

Choong Hock Chuan, 43, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Chow Kam Wen, 26, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1998

Chua Beng Hin, 42, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Chua Lay Kiang, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Chua Ser Lian, 42, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Chua Tong Tyan, 26, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Cohen, Aaron (shown as teenager, with mother, at earlier hearing), caned later in Malaysia at age 24

Cohen, Aaron at age 20, leaving courtroom in 1987 after being sentenced to cane

Cohen, Aaron at age 22, after appeal hearing in 1989

Cohen, Aaron, undated file picture

Connelly, William, 19, birched in the Isle of Man, shows resulting weals on thigh, 1965

Cooper, Brian, 35, flogged in Saudi Arabia, 1978

Craddock, Dennis, 11, birched in the UK, 1943

Craddock, Dennis, another picture, with his parents

Darzuki Ombri, 47, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Daud, Juwil, 33, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2001

Dhanabal Senthil Kumaran, 24, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Dingai ak Lindang, Andrew, 44, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Duraisamy Mohanaranjan, 44, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Elly Arpony Jalius, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Fadzli Abdul Rahim, Mohamed, 28, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Fairuzazahari Mat Aleh, Mohd, 22, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2000

Farik Mohamed Rafik, Mohammed, 18, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Fathi, Mohd, now 22, caned at age 20 in Singapore, 1997

Fauzi Imbap Abdullah, Mohd, 28, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Fay, Michael, 18, caned in Singapore, with stepfather, on way to court hearing, 1994

Fay, Michael, with stepfather, leaving court after sentence, 1994

Fay, Michael, another picture, 1994

Fay, Michael, with natural father, on leaving prison, 1994

Fenny De David Martin Danori, 27, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2003

Ghanbari, Saeed, age not stated, flogged in Iran, 2007, flogging itself is also shown

Gee Kean Siang, 25, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1998

Ghani Abdul Karim, Abdul, 31, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Gibot, Willer, 24, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Goh Hock Nguang, 37, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Goh Seng Huat, Michael, 46, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Goh Weng Soon, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Gopi Krishanan Sivanu Pillay, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Grandstaff, Scott Browning, 16, immediately after 20 lashes of belt in US court, 1968

Gunawan, Eddy, 26, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2001

Gunawan Hendro, Moh, 25, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Han Lin Siew, Joseph, 33, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Harun Amir Hossain, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Hasik Sahar, Muhamad, 22, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Hasman Mek Mek, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Hassan Awang, Mohamad, 26, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Hazrin Hassim, 32, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Hector, Russell Kitson, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Hendra, 25, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Henok Sibuea, 30, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Herman, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Hilan, Kalathithara Subran, 36, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Ho Hwee Jin, 44, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Ho Meng Keat, 40, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1999

Huang Shun Feng, 30, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Human, Nicholas Benjamin, 26, sentenced to caning in South Africa, 1980

Hunt, James, 16, spanked in open court, USA, 1962

Ibrahim Mohamed Khairuddin, 34, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Illegal border jumpers en masse from Zimbabwe, rounded up and caned in neighbouring Botswana, 2003

Irjuan bin Tahardi, 36, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Ismail Shah Abdul Wahab, 23, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Iwabuchi, Hiroshi, 43, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2000

Izam Abdollah, 33, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Jaberali Abbas, 30, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Jaffry Mohamed, 38, sentenced to caning in Singapore having already been caned 10 years earlier, 2005

Jahidin Solihin, 31, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1999

Jamal Rostamur, 25, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Jamaludin Saripudin, 26, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004 (and previously caned)

Jarih Rashad, 21, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Jasman Salim, 36, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1998

Jefry Abdullah, 36, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Jesudass, Johnson, 33, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Jikol (or Jikon), Jackson, 19, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004 (two pictures)

Johan Johari, 25, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Joseph, P., 49, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Jumat Abdullah @ Richard Norman, 32, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Junaidi bin Awg Damit, 22, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2000

Kadir Bodialam, 45, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Kalaivanan Tamilarasan, Mark, 24, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Kamal Ishaq Mollah, 38, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Kamarudin Idris, 29, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Kassim Idris, Abdul, 39, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Keenan, William, 19, birched in the Isle of Man, shows resulting weals on thigh, 1965

Kegobilwe, Johannes, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Botswana, 2004

Khairudin Ismail, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Khairul Annuar Ismail, 25, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1998

Khairul Famy Mohamed Samsudin, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Kairul Iskandar Khamsani, 21, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Khairul Nizam, 27, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Khishindran Nair Ramachand, 19, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Khoka Tazamalbapari, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Kiggundu, Alphonse, 37, claims to have been wrongly caned in prison in Uganda, 1999

Kimin Othman, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Koh Gim Phiaw, 29, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Koh Hock Seng, 49, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Koh Lye Soon, 45, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Koh Seng Kee, 48, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Kueh Thuan Seng, 47, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1997

Kumar, Alvin, 27, sentenced to caning in Fiji, 2005

Lai Chin Yeong, Andy, 32, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Lai Jiat Thiam, 44, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Lai Kah Seng, 39, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Lee Ai Eng, 36, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Lee Boon Leong, 41, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Lee Chin Chun, 31, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Lee Hock Woo, 31, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Leong Kim Mun, 35, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1992

Leong Yew Thong, 39, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Leow Kok Meng, 38, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1998

Lim Ah Ter, 43, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Lim Chiew Seng, 31, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Lim Chwee Seng, 41, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Lim Hock Keng, 32, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Lim Song Kia, Peter, 39, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Lim, Johnny, 46, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Lim Kuan Seng, 30, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Lim Seong Yeong, 37, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Lim Son Thye, 40, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Lim Tao Boon, 26, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Linang anak Gerai @ Rahman anak Gerai @ John Hell, 40, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2004

Liong Kian Peng, 29, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Liwatsari Saibi, 36, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Lo Kok Min, 29, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1998

Loh Beng Lea, 28, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Loh Hwee Peng, 24, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005 (two different pictures)

Loh Kok Siang, 25, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Loo Cheng Lip, 34, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Loke Seng Hay, 45, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Loke Tuck Fatt, 39, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1998

Ma'ang ak Dring, Erik, 32, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Maaruf Mahmud, 33, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

McKell, James, 19, birched in the Isle of Man, 1965

Mahathir Azhar Mohd Khairy, 23, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005, shown in two different pictures leaving court after sentence

Mahmod Mohalas, 32, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Mahmud Mohamed Salleh, Mahomed, 19, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Maidment, Nigel, 27, flogged in Saudi Arabia, 1978

Mak Kheong Chee, 30, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Mak Kian Chye, 21, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1998

Maniam, T., 44, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Manivanan Vulakanathan, 31, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Mansor Mat Noor, 49, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1997

Mathenkumar Segaran, Melvin, 18, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Mnguni, Gideon, 54, lashed with sjambok at people's court, South Africa, 1998

Mohd Abbas Danus Baksan, 47, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Mohd Din Ismail, 26, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005

Mohamed Hishamadi Rahmat, 34, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Md Khairul Islam Habibul Rahman, 30, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Mohamed Nasha, 30, sentenced to Syriah caning in Malaysia, 2005

Mohd Noor Annuar Othman, 28, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Mohamed Nizam Ibrahim, 32, sentenced to Syriah caning in Malaysia, 2005

Mohamad Rizal Mohamed Amin, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Md Sani Abdul Rashid, 35, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Mohan S. Chinniah, Kevin, 43, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Mok Chee Meng, 35, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Mokrah Salleh, 43, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Morenzie, Robert, age not stated, sentenced to birching in Trinidad, 1999

Morgan, R., 41, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Mugunthan Ponysamy, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Muhammad Nor Daud, 35, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Munawar Ismail, 35, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Murugappan Palanikkumar, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Nanang Anan, 21, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Neo, Jeremy, now 34 (in 2004), reformed ex-convict, previously caned in Singapore

Ng Beng San, 29, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Ng Boon Kwee, 26, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1998

Ng Chin Hock, 34, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2001

Ng Eng Hoe, 41, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Ng Hua Chye, 47, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Ng Ko Sen, 43, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Ng Liang Neng, 35, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1999

Nicholas, Kenneth, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Nik Pa Zakaria, 41, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005

Noh Hafiz Osman, Mohamed, 17, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Nooryanto bin Mohd Noor, 22, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2000

Norezam Mohsin, 28, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Norhisham Yeop Ahmad, 34, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Norfahmyrudin Mohamed Zainuddin, 21, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Norrahhi Noman, Mohamad (see also next item), 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1998

Norrahhi Noman, Mohamad (see previous item), 30, again sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Nur, Mohamad, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Nuryani, 24, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Nurvin Lakimi, 33, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2001

Nyi Nyi, 29, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1998

Oh, Marx, 32, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Oh Keng Kee, Alvin, 28, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Olbrich, Siegfried Erhard (or Eberhard), 25, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Ong Huat Koh, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Ong, Jeffrey, 30, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Ong Tek Ping, 21, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Ong Wee Siong, 17, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Oscar Burung, 33, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2001

Othman Ahmad, 46, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Ow Sing Hai, 22, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Pah Foh Soon, 45, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Papayes Doheng, 43, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005

Parijan Mohammad, 29, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Parthiban R. Kandasamy, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Peh Thian Hui, 48, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Phang Yin Pin, Francis, 31, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Poomenathan Govindasamy, 44, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Pravin Kumar, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Pua Sor Keong, 24, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Puar Cheng Kuar, 21, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Purwanto, Henry, 26, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Puspanathan, K., 30, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005

Quah Hong Wee, 33, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Raffi Mohamed Kunju, Mohamed, 36, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Raffin Jelan, 37, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004, having already been caned in the past

Rafizan Mohd Saleem, Mohd, 26, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Ragu Ramajayam, 37, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Rahim Abdul Rahaman, Abdul, 35, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Rahim Basron, 33, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1998

Rahman Muhammad, Abdul, 42, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005

Rahim Raman Shah, 22, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Rais Ripin, Mohammad, 29, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Ramakrishnan, P., 28, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Raman, K., 32, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Rambahadur Ramkirpal, 30, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Ramlagan, Keith, 37, sentenced to birching in Trinidad, 2006

Ramli Ang Abdullah, 47, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1998

Ramli Muslimin, 40, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Randi Hussin, 27, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Rasikin, Muhammad, 19, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Ravinthiran, J., 36, sentenced to caning in Singapore in 2003, sentence upheld on appeal, 2004

Ravinthran Kalimuthu, 33, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Raymi Ramlee, Muhammad, 18, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Razali Pilen, 27, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003 (two pictures)

Rengan Balakrishnan, 26, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Ridhwan Ya'acob, 21, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Ridzuwan Sapary, Muhamad, 19, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Riezairil Mohd, Mohd, 29, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005, shown in two different pictures leaving court after sentence

Roslan bin Yusof, 23, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2000

Roslan Darussalam, Ahmad, 41, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Roslan Dilah, 21, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Roslan Mat Yaman, 31, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2000

Rosli bin Bakri, 47, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Rosli bin Bakri, 47, another picture (at his appeal hearing), 2004

Rosli bin Oyoh, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Rosli Sulaiman, 41, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1999

Rosman Mohd Ismail, 33, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Rozli Ahmad, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Rudy Ramlee, Muhammad, 19, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Sa'adon, Mohamed Imran, 16, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Sabir, Mohammad, 27, publicly caned in Pakistan, 1978, two views of his punishment in progress

Safri Koboy, 23, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1998

Sahari bin Hj Osman @ Hj Othman, 42, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2002

Saifuddin Othman, 18, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Saiful Islam Miah Fazlul Haque, 22, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Salehudden Ibrahim, 22, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Samad Abd Ghani, Abd, 34, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Samian Juri, 35, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Saminathan Subramaniam, 42, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Samri Hashim, Muhammad, 29, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Samsuddin Mustamin, 25, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Samynath Marimuthu, 25, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Saravavanan Rajasegaran, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Sarib Habib, 42, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Sashi Kumar Pubalasingam, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Sateesh Kumar Manogaran, 25, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Sathiyaraj Kaundar Muragan, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Satthiyan Anbarasan, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Seah Seow Kuan, 46, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Seah Yee Hung, Andrew, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

See Ah Pheng, 42, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

See Seng Guek, 35, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

See Seng Lok, 33, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Selvaraju Satippan, 45, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Seng Inn Thye, 40, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Seow Fook Thiam, age not stated, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Ser Eng Siong, 33, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Shafiee Manshor, Mohd, 26, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Shah Nizam Shamshuddin, Mohd, 20, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2003

Shamsir Selamat, 21, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Shamsuddin Abdul Rahman, 25, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Sharifpudin Mohamad, 29, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Shashi Kumar Narayannan, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Shau Soon Kia, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Shi Ai Hua, 48, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Shiu Chi Ho, 16, caned in Singapore, 1994

Shore, Pete, 16, spanked in open court, USA, 1962

Shukor Abd Karim, Mohd, 34, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Siang A'en, 34, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Siang (bin) A'en, 35 (see above), at a later court hearing for further offences, Malaysia, 2003

Siang A'en, another picture, after sentencing to further jail and caning, Malaysia, 2003

Siddharth Mujumdar, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002, pictured in 1999 at age 16 going to court with his father

Siddharth Mujumdar, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002, current picture

Sitthichai Palama, 30, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Sng Beng Hwee, Kelvin, 22, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

So Weng Kei, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Soh Heng Ann, Ricky, 37, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Soh Wee Ping, 21, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Solaiyan Arumugam, 26, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Soleh Ahmad Poro, Muhammad, 31, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Sompong Tosungnoen, 44, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2004

Somrata Sae Tang, 26, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Songsang, Bahari, 48, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1998

Songsang, Saiful, 21, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1998

Soon Chen Siong, 32, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2003

Suboh Othman, 24, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Suffian Tambek, 31, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1998

Suhaili Elias, 34, sentenced to caning in Brunei, 2003

Sulaiman Bidin, 49, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 1997

Sumono Resodimirjo, 36, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2002

Suresh Kamur, D., 37, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Suresh Nair Vellayutham, 28, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Suresh Nair Vellayutham, 29, sentenced to caning (again) in Singapore, 2004

Suriadi bin Bujang, 38, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2004

Swarup Das, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Symes, Robert, caned in Malaysia in 1982 at age 33, here pictured a few years earlier new!

Tajuddin, Mohd, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Tamilselvan Sagayakumar, 24, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Tan Ah Kiat, John, 19, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Tan Aik Seng, 40, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Tan Boon Khoon, 41, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Tan Bun Heng, Benjamin, 34, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Tan Bun Leong, Melvin, 29, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Tan Ching Leong, 29, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2005

Tan Hock Lye, 39, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Tan Hong Aik, 30, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Tan Kian Keong, 23, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Tan Kim Peow, 44, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Tan Kong Chai, 30, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Tan Leong Seng, 47, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Tan Lug Tong, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Tan, Neivelle, now 62, caned in Singapore prisons in 1958 at age 18, 1959 at age 19, and 1966 at age 26

Tan Ping Koon, 35, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Tan Siew Kwong, Andrew, 48, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Tan Song Peng, 40, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Tan Thian Tiong, 48, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2000

Tan Tian Kwee, David, 40, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2002

Tan Tho Eng, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Tan Tze Wee, 32, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2006

Tan Wing Keat, 28, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2000

Tan, Vincent, 32, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Tawang anak Jamal, now 34, caned in Malaysia at age c.17 in c.1982

Tay Boon Heng, 29, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Tay Boon Hua, aka Ah Chai, 45, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Tay Hock Ann, 25, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Tay Sau Soon, 33, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2004

Tay Seng Huat, Ivan, 27, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Tay Teik Chai, Robson, 36, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2003

Teng Yew Li, 30, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1997

Teo Bee Keong, 22, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Tesleem Ahmad Sayed Ahmad, 30, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2001

Tham Kum Fook, 21, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1996

Thia Teck Chye, Harris, 20, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Thomas, Robert, 56, Australian given 300 lashes in Saudi Arabia, 2003

Timhar Jimdani Ong, 39, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2006

Toh Kee Eng, 32, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Toh Khiam Hock, 48, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

Toh Lam Seng, 36, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2007

Tok Poh Oon, 36, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 2005

Tucker, Derrick, 14, paddled in police station, Illinois, USA, 2004

Varatheraaj V. Santrian, S., 33, sentenced to caning in Malaysia, 2007

Vathada Raju, 34, sentenced to caning in Singapore, 1999

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