TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Auj-e Taqaddas, 42, was found guilty in a court in Bali’s capital, Denpasar, of violence against an officer at Bali’s airport carrying out his legal duty, Judge Esthar Oktavi told Reuters.
“The sentence is six months in prison,” Oktavi said by text message.
The sentence was lighter than the one-year jail term sought by the prosecutor over the incident on July 28 last year.
“This is an unfair decision ... I was forcibly brought to the court, no lawyers provided,” Taqaddas told the court, accusing the prosecutors of torturing her three times and trapping her in the country.
The judge and prosecutor said Taqaddas had filed an appeal.
Her sentencing had been postponed several times because she was sick and also when authorities said she had checked out of a hotel, and could not find her, when they tried to collect her for the hearing.
A smartphone video of the purported incident, which went viral at the time, showed an agitated Taqaddas shouting and swearing at the immigration official, before slapping him across the face after grappling to snatch her passport back from him.
Source: Reuters