Renowned Turkish pianist Fazil Say was convicted Monday by a court in Turkey of insulting Islam in messages he posted on Twitter
Say, 42, received a 10-month jail sentence on a five-year suspended basis, meaning he won't be sent to jail unless he convicted of another offense during the next five years.
Turkish authorities charged Say last June with insulting Islam after retweeting an 11th-century poem that satirized the Islamic afterlife and for another message critical of a local muezzin, the person tasked with making the daily calls to prayer at mosques. He faced a maximum sentence of 18 months in jail, according to the BBC. Read more...
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