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Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet

Posted by timothy on from the religious-practice-makes-perfect-slavery dept.

New submitter StarWreck writes "Police in Kuala Lumpur detained Hamza Kashgari, 23, 'following a request made to us by Interpol' on behalf of the Saudi authorities. Kashgari, a newspaper columnist, fled Saudi Arabia after posting a tweet which read: 'I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don't understand about you I will not pray for you.' Said tweet sparked outrage in Saudi Arabia and resulted in multiple death threats. Kashgari faces the death penalty in Saudi Arabia."

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  1. Re:and where is exactly the problem? by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lol, yeah what's wrong with putting this guy to death for tweeting that? I mean frankly he deserves it.

  2. I said the same thing about /. by wbr1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The situation is sad, but I could not resist a joke to add some levity to the conversation.

    The same could be said about /. :
    'I have loved things about you (great submissions, brilliant posts) and I have hated things about you (useless news, trolls, goatse) and there is a lot I don't understand about you (why your code is still buggy after so many years) I will not pray for you.(But I will still read)'

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    Silence is a state of mime.
  3. Re:and where is exactly the problem? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently the Saudis put out the warrant and the Malaysian authorities detained at the airport and are shipping him back. Apparently the Malaysians are really amenable to the foreign governments about extraditing and returning people, so even if this guy faces the death penalty the Malaysians just don't want to get in the middle of things.

    I guess the moral of the story is that if you are going to flee to another country, try some place like Canada or Sweden first.

    But if you choose Sweden, keep away from the women.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  4. Re:and where is exactly the problem? by jamstar7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, it's not like he was talking down AFTA or SOPA...

    NO CARRIER...

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    Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
  5. Re:and where is exactly the problem? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Funny

    He was accused of apostasy as a result,

    In my country, apostasy from Islam is punishable by free beer!

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    Ezekiel 23:20