The Padang District Court Friday sentenced two local Al-Qiyadah Islamiyah sect activists to three years imprisonment for blasphemy.

Presiding judge Saparudin Hasibuan said in the verdict that Dedi Priadi, 44, and Gerry Lufthi Yudistira, 20, had violated the Criminal Code and were guilty of blaspheming in public.

Their sentences were six months lighter than those sought by their prosecutors.