Court slaps ex-MP with 3 months jail term over sectarian remarks
Manama : A former parliamentarian has been sentenced by the Lower Criminal Court to three-months imprisonment for making sectarian comments on social media earlier this year.
The court also ordered a BD300 bail to stop executing the sentence.
According to a statement issued by the Public Prosecution, the ex-MP was interrogated on January 15 for posting insulting comments against a sect on his Twitter handle.
The tweet, deleted after a few hours, drew severe criticism from several social media users including a renowned attorney, who pledged to hold him accountable for the comments.
Prosecution back then confirmed that the tweets defamed a leading figure revered and glorified in their sect.
However, during interrogations, the ex-MP pleaded not guilty claiming that he was only reposting the remarks of another individual and that he later removed it from his page.
The prosecutors charged him with insulting a revered and glorified figure as per Clause 2/310 of the Kingdom’s Penal Code which calls for punishing those who insult a symbol or a person glorified or considered sacred.
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