India, April 22 -- A Florida judge has reprimanded Gabriela Saldena, a 23-year-old Florida International University (FIU) student arrested for a joke about Benjamin Netanyahu, as she appeared in court after her arrest last week.

Charges against Saldena were filed after she joked on a WhatsApp group chat about planning an event at the university's Ocean Bank Convocation Center asking Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu to drop bombs at the Ocean Bank Convocation Center. Though she later apologized, calling it a "dumb joke," charges were filed against her, and she was arrested.

As she appeared in court on Monday (April 20) the judge ruled on her argument that it was a joke and pointed out that it may be perceived differently by "an objective per...