{"id":32372,"date":"2012-01-23T15:02:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32372"},"modified":"2012-01-23T15:02:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:02:50","slug":"uk-three-muslim-men-convicted-over-gay-hate-leaflets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32372","title":{"rendered":"UK: Three Muslim men convicted over gay hate leaflets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Muslim men have <a title=\"Guardian: Three Muslim men convicted over gay hate leaflets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jan\/20\/three-muslims-convicted-gay-hate-leaflets?INTCMP=SRCH\" target=\"_blank\">been convicted<\/a> of inciting hatred on the grounds of sexuality, in the first conviction of its type in the\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship : UK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/UK\/\" target=\"_blank\">UK<\/a>.\u00a0Ihjaz Ali, Kabir Ahmed and Razwan Javed were found guilty of breaching <a title=\"Legislation : Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2008\/4\/contents\" target=\"_blank\">hate crime legislation<\/a> after handing out a series of leaflets calling for gay people to be killed. The leaflets saying Death Penalty? God Abhors You, and Turn or Burn, were distributed outside a mosque in Derby in 2010, and were also posted through letterboxes nearby.\u00a0The CPS said it had established that the leaflets were not only insulting and abusive, but also that they had been distributed with intent to stir up hatred.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Muslim men have been convicted of inciting hatred on the grounds of sexuality, in the first conviction of its type in the\u00a0UK.\u00a0Ihjaz Ali, Kabir Ahmed and Razwan Javed were found guilty of breaching hate crime legislation after handing out a series of leaflets calling for gay people to be killed. The leaflets saying Death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[4059,584,585],"tags":[346,4232,1817,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32372"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32383,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32372\/revisions\/32383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}