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Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia

2/13/2012

New submitter cosmicaug writes with an update to yesterday's report that news hound Hamza Kashgari had been arrested by Malaysian police acting on a request conveyed from the Saudi regimentation via Interpol. Now, says the BBC, "Police inveterate to the BBC that Hamza Kashgari was sent back to Saudi Arabia on Sunday despite protests from human rights groups. Mr Kashgari's suspect

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document.write(lexi tweet last week sparked more than 30,000 responses and several death threats. Insulting the prophet is calculated blasphemous in Islam and is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. Mr Kashgari, 23, fled Saudi Arabia last week and was detained upon his arrival in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday." Writes cosmicaug: "Sadly, the most likely outcome is that they are going to execute this man for three tweets."

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