{"id":2638,"date":"2015-12-22T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T08:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2015-12-22T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T08:41:09","slug":"saudi-arabia-the-writer-zuhair-kutbi-convicted-advocated-political-reforms-in-his-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/12\/22\/saudi-arabia-the-writer-zuhair-kutbi-convicted-advocated-political-reforms-in-his-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia: The writer Zuhair Kutbi convicted advocated political reforms in his country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zuhair Kutbi, Saudi writer, was sentenced to four years in prison and banned from writing for 15 years for having called for political reforms in his country.<\/p>\n<p>Zuhair Kutbi &#8220;was sentenced to 4 years in prison&#8221; and banned from writing for 15 years, said Ibrahim al-Midaymiq to me on Twitter. The verdict of the Criminal Court in Riyadh has been confirmed by the son of the writer, Kutbi Jamil, who wrote on Twitter: &#8220;My father was sentenced.&#8221; On Sunday, he had indicated that his father was to be tried by a court responsible for matters of &#8220;terrorism&#8221;. The writer was also fined 100,000 riyals (26,667 dollars) and banned from leaving the kingdom for five years, according to the lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>He added that half of the sentence was suspended and his client will only serve two years.<\/p>\n<p>Last July in a televised debate, he had particularly asked to &#8220;turn the country into a constitutional monarchy and combating religious and political repression.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuhair Kutbi, Saudi writer, was sentenced to four years in prison and banned from writing for 15 years for having called for political reforms in his country. Zuhair Kutbi &#8220;was sentenced to 4 years in prison&#8221; and banned from writing for 15 years, said Ibrahim al-Midaymiq to me on Twitter. The verdict of the Criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[366,155,293],"tags":[886,887,888,889,890],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hra","category-latest-news","category-middle-east","tag-activism","tag-political-reforms","tag-sentenced","tag-the-writer","tag-zuhair-kutbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}