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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Stuti Mishra

Swiss tourist jailed for being out on beach and calling Bali’s sacred day of silence ‘crazy’

A Swiss tourist has been sentenced to a year in prison in Bali for posting videos boasting that he had broken the rules of Nyepi, the Balinese day of silence, and calling the tradition crazy.

Luzian Andrin Zgraggen, 26, was convicted at the Denpasar district court on Thursday of insulting a religious observance under Indonesia's new criminal code. The court found he had made the posts after staff at the villa where he was staying explained the restrictions to him.

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