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Rizieq Shihab held sermons and gatherings that drew tens of thousands. PHOTO: REUTERS
May 28, 2021 06:00 am
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JAKARTA A firebrand Indonesian cleric was jailed yesterday for holding sermons and other gatherings that drew tens of thousands of followers, breaking virus restrictions.
The eight-month prison term handed to Rizieq Shihab comes several months after Indonesia outlawed his influential hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) in the aftermath of a deadly shoot-out between police and his followers.
Yesterday, East Jakarta District Court jailed Rizieq for urging supporters to attend sermons, a celebration of the Prophet Mohammed s birthday, and his daughter s wedding. All drew huge crowds in a country hard hit by the pandemic.
JAKARTA, May 27 An Indonesian court sentenced today hardline Muslim cleric Rizieq Shihab to eight months in prison and fined him 20 million rupiah (US$1,400) for breaching coronavirus curbs after his return last year from self-imposed exile. A livestream of the court hearing showed Rizieq, the.
JAKARTA, May 27 ― An Indonesian court was set to deliver its verdict today in the trial of a hardline Muslim cleric accused of breaching coronavirus curbs and inciting followers to attend mass gatherings after his return last year from self-imposed exile. A livestream of the court hearing showed.
A firebrand Indonesian cleric was jailed Thursday for holding sermons and other gatherings that drew tens of thousands of followers, breaking virus restrictions in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation. When he returned to Indonesia in November, Shihab was welcomed by tens of thousands of followers at Jakarta airport, in violation of a Covid-19 ban on gatherings.
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An Indonesian court convicted and sentenced a hardline Islamic preacher and five of his associates to eight months in prison Thursday on charges of violating COVID-19 restrictions by organizing Jakarta area events that drew thousands of people last year.
The East Jakarta District Court found Muhammad Rizieq Shihab, founder of the banned but influential Islamic Defenders’ Front (FPI) vigilante group, and his co-defendants guilty of violating health-quarantine orders through the mass events, which included his daughter’s wedding and a birthday celebration for Prophet Muhammad.
“We declare defendant Mohammad Rizieq Shihab guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of violating the health quarantine law,” chief judge Suparman Nyompa ruled.