Al-Bilad learned that the detention renewal judge ordered the renewal of the detention of an Asian for a period of 10 days pending investigation. For posting tweets insulting to the Islamic religion on a social media platform.
Details indicate that the Public Prosecution received a report from the Anti-Cybercrime Department of the General Department of Anti-Corruption and Economic and Electronic Security at the Ministry of Interior last week, stating that tweets insulting the Islamic religion had been monitored through an account on a social media program.
The administration’s investigations established the identity of the accused, and it was found that he was of Asian nationality, as he wrote down those tweets in his public account, which is available to all. The Public Prosecution, in turn, began its investigations into the incident, interrogated the Asian, confronted him with the content of his tweets and the evidence against him, and ordered his detention pending investigation.
In the same context, the Chief Public Prosecutor stated that freedom of opinion and expression is constitutionally guaranteed without prejudice to beliefs, religions, or the personal and private rights of others protected by the law, and that the Public Prosecution deals decisively, and within the framework of the law, with any practice that constitutes an infringement on religion, and everything that might prejudice the values. And the constants of Bahraini society.
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