A Turkish court has sentenced a man to seven months and 15 days in prison and released him for posting a photo on Reddit with an alcohol bottle in a mosque in Istanbul.
Oct 14, 2023. Posted by Balkan
Periscope - Hellas
A Turkish court has sentenced a man to seven months and 15 days in prison
and released him for posting a photo on Reddit with an alcohol bottle in a
mosque in Constantinople.
A Constantinople court has sentenced a Turkish man to seven months and 15 days in prison for posting a picture on Reddit with an alcohol bottle in a mosque on charges of “publicly insulting the religious values adopted by a segment of the population.”
The court
also ruled for the release of him, who was in prison for almost one month.
In the
latest trial of the case, the 19-year-old man “promised” to not insult the
religious values of any group, “even if it is a minority,” Demirören News
Agency reported on Oct. 11.
The
sentence will not be applied if the man does not commit another crime within
five years.
The
19-year-old man was arrested on Sept. 16 after posting a photo on Reddit with
an alcohol bottle inside a mosque, saying “If they (the police) can find which
mosque (I am in) among 3,200 mosques…”
Turkish media
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