Swiss authorities said Friday they were providing consular support to a national sentenced to one year in prison in Indonesia for insulting a Hindu religious day while he was on holiday in Bali.
Luzian Andrin Zgraggen, 26, was sentenced on Thursday after being found guilty of crimes under an Indonesian law against online hate speech.
Zgraggen was arrested in March after he was reported to police over an Instagram post in which he used expletives while denigrating “Nyepi”, the Hindu Day of Silence that marks the Balinese New Year.
Zgraggen’s crime was punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment under the law.