Condemnation of Ahok blasphemy conviction and prison sentence grows
World Watch Monitor Tuesday’s verdict of an Indonesian court, sentencing Jakarta’s outgoing governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as ‘Ahok’, to two years in prison for blasphemy, has received widespread condemnation globally as politicians, academics and rights groups express their concern about religious pluralism in Indonesia. Ahok, a Chinese Christian, was charged with blasphemy after accusing […]