Indonesia: TikToker jailed for telling Jesus to cut his hair

Rights groups have condemned the sentence, made under a controversial online hate-speech law.

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Ratu Thalisa, a Muslim transgender woman with more than 442,000 TikTok followers, had been on a livestream, and was responding to a comment that told her to cut her hair to look more like a man.

On Monday, a court in Medan, Sumatra found Thalisa guilty of spreading hatred under a controversial online hate-speech law, and sentenced her to two years and 10 months in jail.

The court said her comments could disrupt "public order" and "religious harmony" in society, and charged her with committing blasphemy.

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