(UKPA) – 19 hours ago
A Malaysian court has fined 12 Muslim men and sentenced one of them to a week in prison for illegally protesting against the construction of a Hindu temple and parading a severed cow's head.
The men were among scores of Muslims who marched with a cow head to the central Selangor state chief minister's office last August. The cow is Hinduism's most sacred animal.
Defence lawyer Afifuddin Hafifi said the 12 men pleaded guilty in court to a charge of illegal assembly and were fined 1,000 ringgit (£202) each.
He said two of the men, who stepped on the cow's head, also pleaded guilty to sedition. Both were fined an additional 3,000 ringgit (£606) and one was sentenced to a week in prison.
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