Prosecuted for Blasphemy

THE 42-year-old man's identity was not revealed. Yet, the 'sin' that can potentially drag him to court is clear: burning a copy of the Qur'an, the holy book of Muslims, in his backyard on December 2015. He then uploaded a video recording of the event to a Facebook account belonging to a group named 'Yes to Freedom--No to Islam'.

March 14, 2017

THE 42-year-old man's identity was not revealed. Yet, the 'sin' that can potentially drag him to court is clear: burning a copy of the Qur'an, the holy book of Muslims, in his backyard on December 2015. He then uploaded a video recording of the event to a Facebook account belonging to a group named 'Yes to Freedom--No to Islam'.

In court, the man who calls himself John Salvesen, may suffer a fate similar to that of previous perpetrators of comparable

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