An Indonesian court on Wednesday jailed a British woman for six months for slapping an immigration officer in the face on the island of Bali after an argument over a fine for staying in the country after her visa expired. 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 Esther Oktavi told Reuters. The sentence was lighter than the one-year jail term sought by the prosecutor over the incident on July 28 last year. 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 resort island is Indonesia's main tourism hub, attracting millions of foreign tourists a year to its beaches, temples and bars.

Source: dna February 06, 2019 15:00 UTC