Blasphemy Defendant Wants His Hateful Content Dropped from Internet
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29 December 2021 16:34 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Religious blasphemy and hate speech defendant Muhammad Yahya Waloni in Tuesday's court session requested the South Jakarta district court to take down all of the videos of his lectures from the internet, which he deemed hateful against the Christian community.
In court, Waloni insisted that he does not wish for his spiteful lectures to spread across social media.
"I ask for all my offensive video contents that are hurtful against my Christian brothers to be erased," said the defendant in the indictment hearing held virtually on December 28, Antaranews reported.
Prosecutor's office is seeking to imprison him for seven months with an additional Rp50 million fine for his criminal offenses. Waloni entirely accepted the charges against him. In his defense, he acknowledged his crime and showed preparedness to serve the sentences.
Yahya Waloni admitted his crime and regretted the words he chose in some of his lectures. “After I listened, witnessed [of the lectures]..., I feel that I was not represented by the words I spoke. It was foolish and uneducated,” he lamented.
Waloni said being held behind bars gave him a valuable lesson on diversity and interreligious mutual respect.
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