A politician was jailed 16 months after changing his plea and
admitting to sedition for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in a
Facebook posting.
Kota Kinabalu Hight Court Deputy Registrar Zairi Zainal Abidin, who
sat as Sessions Court Judge, ordered the jail term against 50-year-old
David Orok to run from Tuesday after dismissing his application for a
stay of execution on the sentence.
David was charged under Section 4(1)(c) of the Sedition Act for
insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in a Facebook posting while at
his house in Tuaran near here on July 4.
He had initially pleaded not guilty to the charge and his trial was supposed to begin on Tuesday.
The Court was told that a police report had been lodged by a woman
after she received a WhatsApp message containing a screenshot of Orok's
Facebook posting.
It was one the 46 police reports lodged against Orok, a State Reform Party member, after his Facebook posting went viral.
Politician David Orok sentenced to 16 months' jail for insulting Islam - Nation | The Star Online
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