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Community Order Handed Down in UK Over Facebook Comments

Post read "all soldiers should die and go to hell"

Reason Staff | 10.9.2012 8:12 AM


A man who posted an offensive Facebook message following the deaths of six British soldiers has been given a community order.

Azhar Ahmed, 19, of Fir Avenue, Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, was found guilty in September of sending a grossly offensive communication.

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