Warning: Disturbing footage. (Unlike the BBC’s video, this includes the girl’s cries for mercy.)

I am disgusted that my tax dollars are propping-up the tinpot dictators who permit miserable bastards, like these, to torture girls.

I’m also sickened by the YouTube commentators who either endorse this torture (one stupidly argues that flogging will solve America’s drug “problem”), or say the girl appears to be sexually aroused.