Dossier
obscenity
Coverage of obscenity in the Nexus archive.
- Supreme Court holds abuse is uncivil, but not obscene
The Supreme Court ruled in a land dispute case that the use of a four-letter expletive does not constitute obscenity. The court clarified that for terms to qualify as 'obscenity,' they must be lascivious, appeal to prurient interests, and provoke a tendency to deprave and corrupt people's minds.
- Woman passes out as she becomes the first ever to be caned for 'committing obscenity live with a man on social media' under Indonesian province's Sharia law
A woman passed out after becoming the first person in an Indonesian province to be caned under Sharia law for committing obscenity live with a man on social media. The punishment was administered for violating the province's Sharia law regulations.