New Delhi, April 10 -- In a shocking incident, a German journalist has been hit with a suspended sentence following he poked fun at the country's Interior Minister on social media, reported GBN on Thursday.

According to the report, Deutschland-Kurier editor-in-chief David Bendels shared an image online in February of Nancy Faeser holding a digitally manipulated sign reading, "I hate freedom of speech."

Later the Interior Minister was then said to have been notified about the post by police, and he filed a criminal complaint.

During the hearing, the Bamberg District Court concluded that unbiased viewers may not have been able to recognise that the photo had been changed from the original.

Report says, the sentencing is the harshest eve...