A British woman has been sentenced to six months in prison after slapping an immigration officer in the Indonesian island of Bali after missing her flight due to an expired visa.
Video showing Auj-e Taqaddas purportedly cursing and hitting an officer at Bali's international airport went viral last year, although the 43-year-old claimed the footage had been edited.
Taqaddas has decided to appeal her sentence after being jailed for six months on Wednesday.
The footage taken in Bali on July 28 appears to show the 43-year-old lashing out after being asked to pay a fine of more than £2,000 for overstaying her visa and missing her flight.
She was due to fly to Singapore but her month-long visa expired on February 18. Taqaddas was then charged with violent behaviour against a government official at Ngurah Rai International Airport.
After being sentenced in Denpasar District Court, Taqaddas, who pleaded not guilty, said the court was corrupt and she had been tortured by police three times including on Wednesday.
She was arrested before the trial in a shopping mall after failing to appear in court several times.
"This is a sham court who was only listening to the dirty prosecutor who did not bring me to the court for six months," said Taqaddas.
As she was escorted from court, she said: "Indonesia is a criminal country. Indonesian law is corrupt. Indonesian judges are corrupt. No lawyer was provided. Indonesian immigration is corrupt."
