Three French tourists were given suspended six-month prison sentences in Sri Lanka after their holiday pictures appeared to show one of them – a woman – kissing a Buddha statue on the lips.
All three – two women and a man – pleaded guilty to desecrating a Buddhist shrine in the central town of Kandy and were also fined USD 11 each, police said.
As well as the woman's apparent kiss, the man tried to imitate the pose of the Buddha and their actions hurt the feelings of Buddhists in the country, police told a magistrate in Galle.
Officers were alerted to the incident after the visitors tried to get their holiday pictures printed.
"The studio employee saw the images and alerted the Galle police who arrested the tourists yesterday and the case was concluded today because they pleaded guilty," said police spokesman Ajith Rohana. Full story...
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All three – two women and a man – pleaded guilty to desecrating a Buddhist shrine in the central town of Kandy and were also fined USD 11 each, police said.
As well as the woman's apparent kiss, the man tried to imitate the pose of the Buddha and their actions hurt the feelings of Buddhists in the country, police told a magistrate in Galle.
Officers were alerted to the incident after the visitors tried to get their holiday pictures printed.
"The studio employee saw the images and alerted the Galle police who arrested the tourists yesterday and the case was concluded today because they pleaded guilty," said police spokesman Ajith Rohana. Full story...
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