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Twitter will honor requests from users who do not want their online behavior tracked, the company said.
A journalist could be the first person to face the death penalty for remarks made on Twitter after allegedly insulting the Prophet Mohammed.
Hamza Kashgari fled his home in Saudi Arabia for Malaysia after some Islamic clerics called for him to be put to death.
It is believed he had tweeted his doubts about Mohammed on the Prophet’s birthday last week.
But the 23-year-old newspaper columnist was arrested as he arrived in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday and was sent back to Saudi Arabia.
Insulting the Prophet is blasphemous in Islam and is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. It is not a capital offence in Malaysia.
The tweet caused uproar with 30 000 responses and a number of death threats but Mr Kashgari insisted: “I was demanding my right to practise the most basic human rights - the freedom of expression and thought.”
The Malaysian authorities said Mr Kashgari was detained following a request by Interpol on behalf of Saudi Arabia.
Jago Russell, of the British charity Fair Trials International, said Interpol should not have been involved in the case, which is ‘clearly of a religious nature’. - Daily Mail
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Anonymous, wrote
What a lovely religion! There is no love of peace in it! How anyone can choose it i don't know?
badballie, wrote
Interpol shows it true colours, as does Malaysia. The really sad thing is that each year hundreds of people die in the name of "Gods" who were never more than 'gods' Mankind must forgo religion if we are to survive as a race.
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