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Jakarta’s Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, speaks to his lawyers after the guilty verdict in his blasphemy trial in Jakarta on May 9, 2017. REUTERS/Bay Ismoyo/Pool
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 9, 2017 | World
The Christian governor of Jakarta was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in jail for insulting Islam. An Indonesian court sentenced Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama to prison for blaspheming the Quran, a ruling that puts an end to the long judicial ordeal in...
