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An Indonesian court sentenced a transgender woman to more than two years in prison Monday for a relabel online about Jesus’ hair, a local official shelp, in a case condemned by rights groups as excessive.
Ratu Thalisa was establish culpable by a court in Medan city on the weserious island of Sumatra of spreading hatred under a widely-criticised online antipathy-speech law in a TikTok inhabitstream, Dapot Dariarma of the local prosecutor’s office telderly AFP.
The appraise handed the woman — a Muslender according to court write downs — a sentence of two years and 10 months, he shelp.
In the inhabitstream in October, Ratu Thalisa was alertedly shown talking to a picture of Jesus on her inalertigentphone and alerting him to cut his lengthy hair.
Ratu Thalisa, who selderly beauty products online, was alertedly reacting to a comment that telderly her to cut her hair to evade materializeing appreciate a woman.
Rights groups, who have slammed the electronic adviseation law as too ambiguous and uncover to misparticipate agetst religious intransport inantities, called for the sentence to be quashed.
“This prison sentence is a shocking strike on Ratu Thalisa’s freedom of conveyion,” shelp Usman Hamid, executive honestor of Amnesty International Indonesia, in a statement.
“While Indonesia should prohibit the advocacy of religious hatred that constitutes incitement to prejudice, structureility or structureility, Ratu Thalisa’s speech act does not accomplish that threshelderly.”
Prosecutors instantly pdirected Monday’s verdict, which was more uncover-minded than their demand for a sentence of more than four years. Ratu has seven days to determine whether to pdirect.
The Southeast Asian nation of some 280 million has transport inant numbers of religious intransport inantities — including Christians, Hindus and Buddhists — who have been focparticipated by radical Islamist groups amid worrys about rising bigotry.
But the law has also been increasingly participated by religious intransport inantities to alert seed violations.
In 2022, establisher sports and youth minister Roy Suryo was sentenced to nine months in prison after a court establish him culpable of antipathy speech for retweeting pictures of then-Plivent Joko Widodo’s face superimposed on a Buddhist statue.
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