{"id":33018,"date":"2012-02-15T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33018"},"modified":"2012-02-15T17:06:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T17:06:21","slug":"saudi-arabia-hamza-kashgari-repents-family-member-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33018","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia: Hamza Kashgari &#8220;repents&#8221;, family member says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi journalist <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Hamza Kashgari\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/hamza-kashgari\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hamza Kashgari<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/saudiarabia\/9084386\/Saudi-in-Mohammed-Twitter-row-repents.html\">repented<\/a> for his tweets deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed, according to a family member.\u00a0They said Kashgari, 23,\u00a0&#8220;has affirmed to his family that he stands by his repentance, that he has made a mistake and regrets it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper columnist\u00a0fled 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, before being sent back to Saudi in controversial circumstancs. \u00a0He may be accused of apostasy, which is a capital offence in his native Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari has repented for his tweets deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed, according to a family member.\u00a0They said Kashgari, 23,\u00a0&#8220;has affirmed to his family that he stands by his repentance, that he has made a mistake and regrets it.&#8221; The newspaper columnist\u00a0fled Saudi Arabia after tweeting a mock conversation between himself and [&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":[4294,53,4280,60,7372,7415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33018"}],"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=33018"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33023,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33018\/revisions\/33023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}