Man sentenced to 26 months’ jail for insulting Islam


KUALA LUMPUR: A man was sentenced to 26 months’ jail by the Sessions Court here after he was found guilty on two counts of insulting Prophet Muhammad, Islam and PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang on Facebook last year.

Judge M. M. Edwin Paramjothy imposed a 26-month jail term for the first charge, and a six-month term for the second charge, on Danny Antoni, 29, and ordered the sentences to run concurrently from the date of his arrest on March 6, 2019.

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