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Via Mashable:

A Turkish Twitter user was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Thursday — for using a handle that was deemed religiously offensive.

The user, Allah (c.c.), or @CenabiAllah, was charged with “humiliating the religious values accepted by a part of the people,” according to Turkish news website Hurriyet Daily News.

Prosecutors in Muş province went after the user—whom Hurriyet says is a teacher named “Ertan P.”—for using the name of God in his Twitter handle and for tweeting messages against the government.

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