{"id":32995,"date":"2012-02-15T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32995"},"modified":"2012-02-15T16:20:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T16:20:47","slug":"malaysia-hamza-kashgari-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32995","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: Hamza Kashgari deported unlawfully, lawyers claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers representing Saudi journalist <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Hamza Kashgari\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/hamza-kashgari\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hamza Kashgari<\/a> have <a title=\"Guardian - Malaysia 'acted unlawfully' in deporting Saudi journalist \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/feb\/14\/malaysia-deporting-saudi-journalist\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0there are no immigration records of his\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - \u201cInterpol is meant to be tackle serious crime, not act as the little helper for r\u00e9gimes that want to kill journalists\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2012\/02\/hamza-kashgari-twitter-blasphemy-interpol-saudi-arabia-denis-macshane\/\" target=\"_blank\">deportation<\/a> from Malaysia last Sunday, suggesting the columnist may have been sent back to his native country in violation of international laws and that the Malaysian government may have acted in contempt of court.\u00a023-year-old Kashgari fled Saudi Arabia after tweeting a mock conversation between himself and the prophet Mohammed that sparked thousands of responses, including death threats. He was\u00a0<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 on 9 February. \u00a0Kashgari may be accused of apostasy, which is a capital offence in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers representing Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari have said\u00a0there are no immigration records of his\u00a0deportation from Malaysia last Sunday, suggesting the columnist may have been sent back to his native country in violation of international laws and that the Malaysian government may have acted in contempt of court.\u00a023-year-old Kashgari fled Saudi Arabia after tweeting a mock [&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":[584,4060,585],"tags":[53,4280,7372,7415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995"}],"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=32995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33020,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995\/revisions\/33020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}