Jakarta governor found guilty of blasphemy, jailed for 2 yrs

An Indonesian court has found the outgoing governor of Jakarta Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, commonly known as Ahok, guilty of blasphemy and sentenced him to two years in prison. Ahok was the first ethnic Chinese Christian to run Indonesia's capital, and the case was seen as a test of religious tolerance and pluralism in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.

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