{"id":60,"date":"2008-02-25T12:37:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T12:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/moroccan-jailed-for-spoof-facebook-profile\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T12:48:27","slug":"moroccan-jailed-for-spoof-facebook-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2008\/02\/moroccan-jailed-for-spoof-facebook-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan Jailed For Spoof Facebook Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/7258950.stm\">BBC<\/a>, Fouad Mourtada has been jailed for 3 years and fined $1300 for creating a fake profile in the name of a Prince in the Royal Family.<\/p>\n<p>In his defence, he said he admired the prince, and that the Facebook entry was just intended to be a bit of fun. A website supporting him published a letter addressed to the prince apologising for the incident. The letter, reportedly penned by Mr Mourtada&#8217;s family, requested clemency.<br \/>\nAccording to the website, he told family members who visited him in jail that he had been blindfolded and beaten unconscious at the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Fouad Mourtada, like thousands of people who create fake profiles of well-known personalities or celebrities on Facebook, has in no way acted in a willingness to cause nuisance to Your Highness, for whom he has always shown the greatest of respect.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this week some <a href=\"http:\/\/myrtus.typepad.com\/myrtus\/2008\/02\/blog-on-strike.html\">Moroccan<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moroccosavvy.com\/taamarbuuta\/2008\/02\/19\/this-blog-is-on-strike\/\">bloggers<\/a> went &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org\/2008\/02\/19\/morocco-facebooks-fake-prince-could-face-five-years-in-prison\/\">on strike<\/a>&#8220;, suspending their regular blog entries for 24 hours in protest at Mr Mourtada&#8217;s detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC, Fouad Mourtada has been jailed for 3 years and fined $1300 for creating a fake profile in the name of a Prince in the Royal Family. In his defence, he said he admired the prince, and that the Facebook entry was just intended to be a bit of fun. A website supporting <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2008\/02\/moroccan-jailed-for-spoof-facebook-profile\/\"><br \/>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[66,91,89,90,88,92],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmuU-Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}