‘Jesus’ detained under PDO for hate speech against PM, Hindus, Indo-Trinis

A man iden­ti­fied as Jo­hann Har­ry, al­so known as 'Je­sus', from Cas­sel­ton Av­enue, Trinci­ty, has been de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der for al­leged­ly dis­sem­i­nat­ing hate speech against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, In­do-Trinida­di­ans and Hin­dus, among oth­ers, on so­cial me­dia.

The con­tent is be­ing con­sid­ered as prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty.

Ac­cord­ing to the de­ten­tion or­der pub­lished late yes­ter­day, Har­ry's so­cial me­dia con­tent was di­rect­ed at In­do-Trinida­di­ans, per­sons of East In­di­an de­scent, Hin­dus, sup­port­ers of the Gov­ern­ment, pub­lic of­fi­cials, and the Prime Min­is­ter of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The ma­te­r­i­al is said to in­clude state­ments con­tain­ing racial and re­li­gious hos­til­i­ty, in­clud­ing con­tent pro­mot­ing con­tempt to­wards Hin­du re­li­gious be­liefs, as well as ma­te­r­i­al con­sid­ered like­ly to in­flame racial, re­li­gious, and po­lit­i­cal ten­sions.

" The de­tainee has fur­ther pub­lished state­ments con­tain­ing threats or en­cour­age­ment of phys­i­cal vi­o­lence against per­sons ex­press­ing views per­ceived by him to be hos­tile to black per­sons," the de­ten­tion or­der states.

In­tel­li­gence as­sess­ments in­di­cate that Har­ry op­er­ates or has ac­cess to mul­ti­ple so­cial me­dia plat­forms and has the abil­i­ty to rapid­ly dis­sem­i­nate in­flam­ma­to­ry con­tent to a sub­stan­tial au­di­ence.

Au­thor­i­ties be­lieve this presents an in­creased risk of pub­lic dis­or­der, re­tal­ia­to­ry con­duct, racial and re­li­gious hos­til­i­ty, and threats to pub­lic safe­ty.

Of­fi­cials fur­ther stat­ed that his con­tin­ued lib­er­ty presents a re­al and con­tin­u­ing risk that he could fur­ther dis­sem­i­nate ma­te­r­i­al like­ly to prej­u­dice pub­lic safe­ty dur­ing the cur­rent State of Pub­lic Emer­gency.

As a re­sult, the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der was deemed nec­es­sary to pre­vent him from act­ing in a man­ner prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty, ac­cord­ing to the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026.