Indonesia rejects appeal of woman jailed over mosque noise complaint
A woman who was jailed 18 months for complaining about the volume of a mosque's call to prayer has had her appeal rejected by the Supreme Court of Indonesia. – EPA pic, April 8, 2019.
INDONESIA’S Supreme Court today rejected an appeal by a woman sentenced to 18 months in jail under the country’s controversial blasphemy law for complaining about the volume of a mosque’s call to prayer. Meiliana, 44, an ethnic Chinese Buddhist, was found guilty of insulting Islam for asking her neighbourhood mosque in Medan, on Sumatra island, to lower its sound system because it was too loud and “hurt” her ears.
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