After surviving a mob attack over a Facebook posting, 31-year-old Indonesian civil servant Alexander Aan was taken into custody by the West Sumatra police for his own safety.
But instead of rounding up his attackers, the police charged him with blasphemy for insulting Islam and declaring that "God doesn’t exist" on the social networking site a fortnight ago.
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