{"id":23292,"date":"2011-06-02T14:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=23292"},"modified":"2011-09-08T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T14:26:30","slug":"saudi-arabia-two-shiite-bloggers-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=23292","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia: Two Shiite bloggers released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Shiite bloggers who were <a title=\"Reporters without Borders: No let-up in abuses against news media\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/saudi-arabia-from-tripoli-to-manama-no-let-up-02-05-2011,40212.html\" target=\"_blank\">arrested <\/a>for their coverage of peaceful demonstrations in Shia-majority area of\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship: Qatif\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/qatif\/\" target=\"_blank\">Qatif <\/a> have been released by Saudi security authorities. The two young men, Mustafa Badr Al-Mubarak and Sayyid Hussein Kadham Al-Hashem, were arrested on 27 April 2011 when security forces broke into their homes and confiscated their laptops. Their blogs contained extensive coverage of their involvement in human rights activism and several peaceful demonstrations. A <a title=\"Index on Censorship: New regulation censors internet content\" href=\"anyone wishing to post material on-line to obtain a press license \" target=\"_blank\">new law <\/a>passed in January 2011 requires anyone wishing to post material\u00a0online\u00a0to obtain a press license from Saudi authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Shiite bloggers who were arrested for their coverage of peaceful demonstrations in Shia-majority area of\u00a0Qatif have been released by Saudi security authorities. The two young men, Mustafa Badr Al-Mubarak and Sayyid Hussein Kadham Al-Hashem, were arrested on 27 April 2011 when security forces broke into their homes and confiscated their laptops. Their blogs contained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[661,727,7415,3406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23311,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23292\/revisions\/23311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}