Man charged with posting insulting FB content


Court appearance: Muhammad Firdaus (foreground) leaving the courtroom after being charged.

JOHOR BARU: A 39-year-old draughtsman pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here to four charges of sending an insulting text and picture about Islam in a post on his Facebook account last year.

Muhammad Firdaus Embong, as the person being summoned, made the plea after the charges were read to him before judge Che Wan Zaidi Che Wan Ibrahim yesterday.

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