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The Indonesian ticker was sentenced to almost three years in prison after it is reported that “talking” with the image of Jesus on her phone and ordered him to get a haircut.
Talisa Talisa, a Muslim transgender woman with more than 442,000 ticket followers, was alive, and responded to a comment that ordered her to cut her hair to look more like a man.
On Monday, a court in Medan, Sumatra found the talis guilty of disseminating hatred under the controversial hatred on the Internet and sentenced her to two years and 10 months in prison.
The court said her comments could violate “public order” and “religious harmony” in society and accused her of blasphemy.
The court ruling came after numerous Christian groups filed complaints of police against Ms Talis for blasphemy.
The verdict was convicted by human rights groups, including Amnesty International, who called it a “shocking attack on freedom of the Talis Town Hall” and called for him to abandon it.
“Indonesian authorities should not use the electronic information and transactions in the country (EIT) to punish people for comments made in social media,” the AMNESTY International Indonesia Hamid Executive Director said.
“While Indonesia should prohibit the propaganda of religious hatred, which is a incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, the talisa’s speech act does not reach this threshold.”
Mr. Hamid called on Indonesia’s authorities to cancel Ms Talis’ condemnation and ensure her immediate exemption from custody.
He also urged them to cancel or make significant reviews of what he called “problematic provisions” in the EIT Law, namely those who criminalize allegedly immorality, slander and language of hatred.
For the first time presented in 2008 and made in 2016 to resolve the Internet, the EIT law was developed to protect the rights of human rights.
However, this is cruelly criticized by groups of rights, press groups and legal experts, who have long caused concern about the potential threat to the Law of Freedom of Expression.
At least 560 people were accused of alleged violations of the EIT law, carrying out their freedom of expression between 2019 and 2024, and 421 were convicted, according to Amnesty International.
Those who are accused of defamation and the language of hatred included several influential social media.
In September 2023, a Muslim woman was Convicted to a two -year prison For blasphemous Islam, after it posted a viral video of a ticket where she told the Islamic phrase before eating pork.
In 2024, another ticker was detained for blasphemy after they placed a quiz asking which animals could read the Quran, reports Amnesty International.
Many religious minorities, including Buddhists, Christians and Hindus, live in Indonesia. But the vast majority of Indonesians are Muslims – and most cases of people who are in violation of the EIT law are usually associated with religious minorities that allegedly insult Islam.
The case of Ms Talis, when a Muslim woman is accused of appealing against Christianity, is less.
Earlier, prosecutors demanded that she receive a sentence for more than four years, and immediately appealed the verdict on Monday. Ms Talis received seven days for appeal.