{"id":32774,"date":"2012-02-10T12:16:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T12:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32774"},"modified":"2012-02-10T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T14:16:31","slug":"malaysia-saudi-writer-arrested-for-blasphemy-over-mohammed-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32774","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: Saudi writer arrested for blasphemy over Mohammed tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Saudi Arabia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Saudi-Arabia\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi<\/a> journalist was <a title=\"Washington Post: Saudi writer Hamza Kashgari faces charge of blasphemy after tweets about Muhammad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/saudi-writer-detained-after-tweets-about-muhammad\/2012\/02\/09\/gIQApsgW2Q_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> in <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Malaysia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Malaysia\" target=\"_blank\">Malaysia<\/a> on Wednesday night after a request by Interpol on behalf of Saudi authorities. Hamza Kashgari tweeted a mock conversation between himself and the prophet Mohammed\u00a0last week, and fled the kingdom after he received thousands of death threats. Kashgari was en route to New Zealand when he was arrested. Saudi Arabia is seeking his extradition in order to try him for blasphemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Saudi journalist was arrested in Malaysia on Wednesday night after a request by Interpol on behalf of Saudi authorities. Hamza Kashgari tweeted a mock conversation between himself and the prophet Mohammed\u00a0last week, and fled the kingdom after he received thousands of death threats. Kashgari was en route to New Zealand when he was arrested. [&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":[584,585],"tags":[3939,571,4280,60,7372,78,7415,700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32774"}],"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=32774"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32796,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32774\/revisions\/32796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}