Malaysian police have discharged a 76-year-old man, who was captured on Saturday for professedly offending the head administrator on WhatsApp.
Nearby reports say the man was held for three days in guardianship, after he was captured for sharing an unrefined photograph offending head administrator Najib Razak in a WhatsApp bunch visit.
A police report was made against him throughout the weekend, and police captured him and grabbed his cell telephone at his home in Petaling Jaya, Selangor the following day.
The gathering's title "Bicara Politik Melayu" means "Malay political editorial," and the man had been posting under the WhatsApp personality Pa Ya, police said.
Johor police boss official Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd said in an announcement: "The photograph has offended and offended of Malaysians."
Powers are exploring him under area 233 of Malaysia's sight and sound laws from 1998, which permit the state to indict any individual who sends content that is "disgusting, obscene, false, threatening or hostile in character with plan to irritate, mishandle, debilitate or disturb someone else."
The charge conveys a most extreme punishment of a year in prison and RM50,000 ($12,422).
A few different Malaysians have as of late crossed paths with this segment of the law also. A month ago, a 19-year-old man was sentenced to a year in jail for offending the Johor regal family on Facebook.
Additionally a month ago, Malaysian road craftsman Fahmi Reza was charged in court for delivering a comedian exaggeration of the leader that circulated around the web recently.
Reza, who has ended up known as the nation's Banksy, argued not blameworthy to the charges