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Indonesian Woman's Jailing Over Mosque Noise Sparks Backlash

Indonesia's jailing of a woman for complaining about the volume of a mosque loudspeaker has sparked a wave of criticism, with a petition calling for her release gaining more than 100,000 supporters. Rights groups and the Muslim-majority country's biggest religious organization slammed the 18-month blasphemy sentence handed out Tuesday to the defendant, an ethnic Chinese Buddhist, in Medan on Sumatra island. The 44-year-old woman named Meiliana was found guilty of insulting...

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