{"id":13525,"date":"2012-02-12T11:27:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T16:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13525"},"modified":"2012-02-12T11:27:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T16:27:32","slug":"interpol-system-key-in-arrest-of-hamza-kashgari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/12\/interpol-system-key-in-arrest-of-hamza-kashgari\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpol system key in arrest of Hamza Kashgari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abuse of a system designed to catch international criminals led to the arrest of Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/feb\/10\/interpol-journalist-arrested-muhammad-tweet\" target=\"_blank\">insulting the Prophet Muhammed<\/a>&#8221; on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Interpol has been accused of abusing its powers after Saudi Arabia used the organisation&#8217;s red notice system to get a journalist arrested in Malaysia for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Kuala Lumpur said Hamza Kashgari, 23, was detained at the airport &#8220;following a request made to us by Interpol&#8221; the international police cooperation agency, on behalf of the Saudi authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Kashgari, a newspaper columnist, fled Saudi Arabia after posting a tweet on the prophet&#8217;s birthday that sparked more than 30,000 responses and several death threats. The posting, which was later deleted, read: &#8220;I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don&#8217;t understand about you \u2026 I will not pray for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than 13,000 people joined a Facebook page titled &#8220;The Saudi People Demand the Execution of Hamza Kashgari&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Clerics in Saudi Arabia called for him to be charged with apostasy, a religious offence punishable by death. Reports suggest that the Malaysian authorities intend to return him to his native country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuse of a system designed to catch international criminals led to the arrest of Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari for &#8220;insulting the Prophet Muhammed&#8221; on Twitter: Interpol has been accused of abusing its powers after Saudi Arabia used the organisation&#8217;s red notice system to get a journalist arrested in Malaysia for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10,11],"tags":[391,47,656,98,371,310,417],"class_list":["post-13525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-law","category-liberty","category-religion","tag-facebook","tag-islam","tag-malaysia","tag-police","tag-saudiarabia","tag-twitter","tag-victimlesscrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3w9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13526,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525\/revisions\/13526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}