Posted on 04/03/2018 7:17:34 PM PDT by marshmallow
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Christian ex-governor of Jakarta to review his conviction for insulting Islam, a court spokesman said on Monday, so the politician will serve out his two-year sentence.
A lower court jailed Basuki Tjahaja Purnama for blasphemy last May after a doctored and incorrectly subtitled video spread on social media that appeared to show him insulting the Koran.
At the time, Purnama, who is popularly known as Ahok, was popular and looked set for re-election to govern the capital of a country with the largest Muslim population in the world. But Islamists led mass rallies calling for him to be unseated and hardline groups urged voters to elect a Muslim rival instead.
Purnama lost the election, was jailed and filed for a judicial review of his case last month.
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So a lie was used (fake media) to discredit a Christian, invalidate an election, and now the Christian is forced to remain in jail, instead of the liars who made the fake news.
Sounds like the USA...
Seriously, the US should protest. We protest all kinds of elections around the world when the results aren’t what we want; why not protest the invalidation of an honest election?
If insulting a certain false religion, doesn’t get Americans jail sentences yet, I think it might soon.
Correct.
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