Hawzah News Agency - (Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia) - An unemployed man pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court today to charges with insulting Islam and improper use of network facility by initiating the transmission of offensive communications through his Facebook page.

Tham Wai Yuen, 47, made the plea after the charges were read out to him before Judge MM Edwin Paramjothy.

On the first count, made under Section 298A(1)(a) of the Penal Code, he was charged with uploading a posting that insulted Islam on his Facebook with the profile name of “Tham Thamsarak”, an action that could cause disharmony, or feelings of enmity or ill-will on grounds of religion between persons or groups of persons professing the same or different religions.