{"id":7989,"date":"2020-01-22T06:31:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T06:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2020-01-22T06:31:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T06:31:14","slug":"three-sri-lankans-in-dubai-to-be-deported-for-insulting-islam-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/three-sri-lankans-in-dubai-to-be-deported-for-insulting-islam-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Sri Lankans in Dubai to be deported for insulting Islam on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Dubai Court of First Instance has sentenced three Sri Lankan security guards of a five-star resort to pay Dh500,000 each after insulting Islam on social media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The three Sri Lankans were accused of contempt of religion over their posts on Facebook and Instagram, Khaleej Times reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The court found them guilty of anti-discriminatory and hatred law and the Federal Penal Code.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They will be deported after paying their fines and are now currently being detained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The case was filed last year at the Al Barsha Police Station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a report on the Khaleej Times, a police official said that they found the three men being restrained by their colleagues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWith a prosecution warrant, we later searched their places and seized their mobile phones and laptops,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An internal probe on the men\u2019s case showed that they admitted that the posted anti-Islam remarks on their Facebook accounts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Copies of those messages and pictures have been used as evidence by the prosecution team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">No one from the accused filed an appeal on the court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dubai Court of First Instance has sentenced three Sri Lankan security guards of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}