{"id":33797,"date":"2012-03-09T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33797"},"modified":"2012-03-09T15:02:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:02:25","slug":"saudi-journalist-facing-the-death-penalty-for-his-tweets-reportedly-to-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33797","title":{"rendered":"Saudi journalist facing the death penalty for his tweets reportedly to be released"},"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 facing the death penalty for a series of tweets deemed to be <a title=\"Index on Censorship: The mysterious case of Hamza Kashgari\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2012\/02\/hamza-kashgari-deport-saudi-arabia\/\" target=\"_blank\">blasphemous<\/a> is reportedly <a title=\"The Next Web: Saudi journalist facing the death penalty for his tweets reportedly to be released\" href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/socialmedia\/2012\/03\/08\/saudi-journalist-facing-the-death-penalty-for-his-tweets-reportedly-to-be-released\/\" target=\"_blank\">to be released<\/a>.\u00a0Hamza Kashgari, who fled his own country after tweeting a conversation between himself and the prophet Mohammed which sparked calls for his death, is expected to be released in the coming weeks to face a\u00a0\u201clight sentence\u201d.\u00a0Kashgari\u00a0hoped to secure political asylum in New Zealand but was arrested in Kuala Lumpur while in transit, and sent back to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Saudi journalist facing the death penalty for a series of tweets deemed to be blasphemous is reportedly to be released.\u00a0Hamza Kashgari, who fled his own country after tweeting a conversation between himself and the prophet Mohammed which sparked calls for his death, is expected to be released in the coming weeks to face a\u00a0\u201clight [&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":[584,4060,585],"tags":[53,4280,60,7372,78,7415,4066,700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33797"}],"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=33797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33816,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33797\/revisions\/33816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}