Bahrain: Woman gets one year prison sentence for offending Islam on social media

Dubai: A woman in Bahrain has been sentenced to one year in jail after being convicted of offending Islam and denigrating its rituals, Chief Prosecutor Nasser Ibrahim Al Sheeb announced.

In details, the Public Prosecution received a report from the Anti-Cyber Crime Directorate detecting an account on the social networking website, Twitter, in which its owner posted tweets offending Islam and disdaining its rituals.

The Public Prosecution launched an investigation into the incident and interrogated the woman who admitted to the charges levelled at her. It ordered to remand her in custody pending investigation and refer her to the Lower Criminal Court which issued the afore-mentioned verdict.