An AFP report today said that Hamza Kashgari, a 23-year old Saudi journalist, who fled his country after his Twitter comments about Prophet Mohammed enraged the public and clerics in Saudi Arabia, was detained on Thursday in Kuala Lumpur at the airport upon his arrival..
His tweets were posted online last week on the prophet’s birthday.
In the AFP report, it was said: "The controversial tweet sparked some 30,000 responses, according to an online service that tracks Twitter postings in the Arab world. Insulting the prophet is considered blasphemous in Islam and is a crime punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. Kashgari apologised for his remarks but that has not stemmed calls for his head. A committee of top clerics branded Kashgari “an apostate” and an “infidel”, demanding he be tried in an Islamic court."
A spokesman from the Home Ministry was anonymously quoted in the report as saying that, although there is no formal extradition treaty between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, "Kashgari could be extradited under other bilateral security agreements."