The convicts have been sentenced to suspended prison terms of four to six months, which means they will not serve time in jail if they are not convicted for other offences, and fined them about $1,770 each, said an Al Jazeera report.

Eighteen-year-old Mila was forced to change schools and accept police protection due to threats to her life after she posted first videos being put online in 2020 harshly criticising Islam and Quran, the report informed.

Her case was heard in a special court created in Paris for online crimes, where Mila testified that she felt as though she had been “condemned to death”, it said.

“I don’t like any religion, not just Islam,” she said during the trial, the reported quoted her.

Her lawyer told the court she received 100,000 threatening messages, including death and rape threats, and hateful messages about her sexual orientation, the Al Jazeera report stated.

“Social networks are the street. When you pass someone in the street, you don’t insult them, threaten them, make fun of them,” said Michel Humbert, the judge hearing the case. “What you don’t do in the street, don’t do on social media.”

She describes herself as an atheist and was 16 when she started posting videos on Instagram and later TikTok, harshly criticising Islam and the Quran, it informed.

Mila has since become a divisive public figure in France, Al Jazeera said, adding that her supporters see her as a symbol of free speech and the right to blasphemy, while her critics describe her deliberately provocative and Islamophobic.

The 13 defendants hail from different parts of France and belong to different religions and walks of life. They were, however, just a handful of people who targeted Mila with their online comments as police couldn't trace the rest of them.

Of the 13 people produced before the court, two were acquitted. One of them, the court found, had targeted her Twitter account and not the young woman and the another defendant was allowed to go for faulty procedures, the report added.