Cairo: An Omani court has convicted a blogger of inciting sectarianism via tweets and handed him a jail sentence, the Omani news agency ONA has reported.
The Criminal Circuit at the Appeals Court convicted the defendant - an Omani national - of inciting regional leanings, spreading sedition and stirring feelings of hate among the country’s people on his Twitter account.
The court sentenced the convict to three years in prison on charges of inciting sectarianism and hate, and three more months for misusing technology in a way harming public order.
The court ordered both penalties integrated into one with the toughest to be applied. It also ordered that his mobile phone be confiscated, his Twitter account blocked and the verdict published, according to ONA.
Public prosecution has warned that it continues to monitor illegal “transgressions” on social networking platforms, mainly those seeking to harm national cohesion.
