{"id":32800,"date":"2012-02-12T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T09:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32800"},"modified":"2012-02-12T10:31:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T10:31:24","slug":"hamza-kashgari-deported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32800","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari deported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian authorities have deported a Saudi journalist accused of insulting the prophet Mohammed on Twitter, it was <a title=\"Guardian \/ AP - Malaysia deports Saudi journalist for tweets about prophet Muhammad \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/feb\/12\/malaysia-deports-saudi-tweets-muhammad\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> today. Newspaper columnist\u00a0Hamza Kashgari fled Saudi Arabia after tweeting a mock conversation between himself and the prophet Mohammed\u00a0last week that sparked thousands of responses, including death threats. He was <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Malaysia: Saudi writer arrested for blasphemy over Mohammed tweets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2012\/02\/malaysia-saudi-writer-arrested-for-blasphemy-over-mohammed-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\">arrested and detained<\/a>\u00a0upon his arrival in Malaysia last Wednesday.\u00a0Insulting the prophet is considered blasphemous in Islam and is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian authorities have deported a Saudi journalist accused of insulting the prophet Mohammed on Twitter, it was reported today. Newspaper columnist\u00a0Hamza Kashgari fled Saudi Arabia after tweeting a mock conversation between himself and the prophet Mohammed\u00a0last week that sparked thousands of responses, including death threats. He was arrested and detained\u00a0upon his arrival in Malaysia last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[4061,584,4060,585],"tags":[53,4280,7372,727,7415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32800"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32803,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32800\/revisions\/32803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}