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Indian in UAE jailed for 'blasphemous' Facebook status
Dubai, May 29
A court in the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) has sentenced an Indian national to one year in jail for
posting a "blasphemous and slanderous" status on social networking site
Facebook, media reported.
The Dubai Court of First Instance found
the 41-year-old man guilty of cursing Islam and the Prophet in his
status update on Facebook after he watched a news bulletin about the
Iraq war in July last year, Gulf News reported on Thursday.
Judge Ezzat Abdul Lat said the defendant would be deported after serving his jail term, according to the report.
The
Indian was arrested after a fellow countryman lodged a police complaint
that he received an image of the allegedly offensive Facebook status on
WhatsApp.
The court ruling can be challenged in a higher court within 15 days.