In January, 43-year-old Christian Hamid Soudad was arrested after a business associate filed a complaint that Soudad posted a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on a social media platform three years ago. Soudad was sentenced to the maximum penalty of five years in prison for violating Article 144, which criminalizes insulting Muhammad or ridiculing “the basics of the religion or any of the Islamic rituals either in writing, drawing, expression or any other method.” Although similar cases have recently received reduced sentences, an appellate judge upheld Soudad’s original sentence.

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教会笔记——国事

今年 1 月，43 岁的克里斯蒂安·哈米德·苏达 (Christian Hamid Soudad) 在一名商业伙伴投诉三年前在社交媒体平台上发布了先知穆罕默德的漫画后被捕。Soudad 因违反第 144 条被判处最高 5 年监禁，该条将侮辱穆罕默德或嘲笑“以书面、绘画、表达或任何其他方式的宗教基础或任何伊斯兰仪式”定为犯罪。尽管最近类似的案件得到了减刑，但一名上诉法官维持了苏达德的原判。