A British DJ
has been sentenced to a year in jail by a Tunisian court after he played a
dance remix of the Muslim call to prayer in a night club
DJ Dax J, who
had already fled the country was charged with public indecency and offending
public morality in the court case, according to a BBC report.
He was said to
have performed at the Orbit Festival in a club located in the coastal city of
Hammamet on Friday and caused controversy on social media after he played a
remix of the Muslim call to prayer at the event.
DJ Dax J later
took to his Facebook page to apologize after receiving threatening messages
from Muslims and was later forced to delete his account.
During the
court hearing, the court, however, dismissed the charges against the nightclub
owner and an organizer of the event but sentenced the DJ in his absence to a
year in jail.
The Tunisia’s religious
affairs ministry in a statement said: 'Mocking the opinions and religious
principles of Tunisians is absolutely unacceptable.'
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