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Indonesian Woman Tried for Blasphemy Over Mosque Incident

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Expand Thousands people from various Islamic organizations marched to the Jakarta Governor Office in October, 2016. Blasphemy laws are now being used as a political tool in Indonesia. An Indonesian woman with a psychosocial disability faces up to five years in prison for an altercation at a mosque, the latest victim of Indonesia’s toxic “blasphemy” law. This week, witnesses testified in court that defendant Suzethe Margaret, a Christian woman living in Bogor, a Jakarta suburb, brought a small dog into a neighborhood mosque, looking for her husband. Margaret accused the mosque of converting…

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