Welp! I know to never go to Indonesia because they put people in jail for insulting Mohammed and Islam on social media. It's strange that millions of people in the world knowingly choose to follow the teachings of a man who purposely married a six-year-old when he was in his fifties. The article from ICC is below.
After serving more than four years behind bars, an elderly Christian man has been released from prison in Indonesia.
International Christian Concern (ICC) field staff have learned that Apollinaris Darmawan was freed from the Kebon Waru Prison in
November 2024. His release comes about a year earlier than expected
after he received “several remissions” to his original sentence. This is the second time Darmawan has been imprisoned for his faith.
Police arrested Darmawan in late 2020 after someone accused him of insulting the
Prophet Muhammad and Islam on social media. The Bandung District Court
sentenced Darmawan to a maximum of five years for blasphemy. The court
also fined him nearly 800 million rupiahs (about $50,000)
for “disseminating information aimed at causing hatred or dissension on
individuals and certain groups of community based on ethnic groups,
religions, races, and inter-groups.”
In 2017, he was sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam. He was freed in March 2020 to help prevent and control the spread of the coronavirus.
During his most recent imprisonment, Darmawan remained steadfast in his faith. Supported by dozens of letters from ICC’s Prison Letter Writing Campaign and several visits
from ICC staff, he stayed spiritually and physically strong, walking
nearly two miles inside the prison grounds daily, and relying on prayer
to sustain him.
Despite
the years he spent in prison, Darmawan, a former Muslim who converted
to Catholicism, still fervently believes he was correct to challenge the
teachings of Islam.
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