Student charged for Facebook 'petrol bomb' remark
This is among the comments that landed 25-year-old Tasyrif Tajuddin (left) in hot soup.The student with the government-owned Aswara National Academy of Arts and Heritage in Kuala Lumpur was charged at the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court this afternoon for making comments with the "intention to cause harm".
However, no plea was recorded from Tasyrif as the sitting Sessions Court judge was not available. The charge was instead read before Magistrate Koh Khuang Chin.
Tasyrif will be produced before the Sessions Court on Monday for his plea to be recorded.
Prosecution had offered that bail be set at RM10,000, and a decision will be made on Monday. Tasyrif will be remanded until then.
It is believed that Tasyrif had also commented on his Facebook page that he was responsible for procuring the substance used in the homemade explosive with regards to the spate of attacks on churches.
He also claimed that he was at the scene but was not present when a petrol bomb was hurled at a particular church.
Tasyrif was charged under Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act which carries a punishment of one year jail and/or RM50,000 fine if found guilty.
The student was unrepresented while deputy public prosecutor Dusuki Mokhtar led the prosecution.
Tasyrif is the first person to be prosecuted in relation to the attacks.
As of yesterday, 10 churches have been targeted in the wake of a High Court ruling that a Catholic weekly Herald can use the word Allah in their publication's Malay pages.
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