{"id":6911,"date":"2004-06-02T22:35:14","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T03:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/06\/02\/more-prison-torture\/"},"modified":"2004-06-02T22:35:14","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T03:35:14","slug":"more-prison-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/06\/more-prison-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"More prison torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Oh wait, nevermind it&#8217;s a Christian in Saudi Arabia.  Don&#8217;t stop the presses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">VATICAN CITY, JUNE 2, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A Catholic Indian citizen was arrested and tortured in Saudi Arabia because of his faith, according to L&#8217;Osservatore Romano. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The semiofficial Vatican newspaper, quoting sources of the Fides missionary agency and the Indian bishops&#8217; conference, said that Brian Savio O&#8217;Connor was imprisoned about six months ago by the Mutawa, the Saudi religious police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Taken to the Ali Hira prison in Riyadh, the accused was threatened with death if he did not convert to Islam, his brothers, Raymond and James, said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The O&#8217;Connor brothers confirmed that Brian &#8220;has been incarcerated for six months and tortured with the intention of obliging him to abjure his faith,&#8221; L&#8217;Osservatore Romano&#8217;s Italian edition reported today. Sources said the accused is now in the Olaya prison. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;Officially the Mutawa has accused O&#8217;Connor of using drugs and praying to Jesus Christ, accusations which imply he runs the risk of being punished with the death penalty,&#8221; the Vatican newspaper stated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;The family says that the proofs of his use of drugs have been fabricated by the police, while it does not deny that Brian is a good Christian,&#8221; the newspaper added.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/english\/visualizza.phtml?sid=54659\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wait, nevermind it&#8217;s a Christian in Saudi Arabia. Don&#8217;t stop the presses. VATICAN CITY, JUNE 2, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A Catholic Indian citizen was arrested and tortured in Saudi Arabia&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}