09.03.2012
Saudi columnist and writer Hamza Kashgari, who was being detained at Al-Hair prison in Riyadh after being accused of tweeting insulting comments about Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), formally repented before the summary court in Riyadh on Tuesday, local daily Al-Madinah reported yesterday.
His father, mother, brothers and lawyer Abdul Rahman Allahim attended the court session.
Sources close to the case believe Kashghari's documentation of his repentance before the judge was an important development in the case.
However, a legal consultant who did not want to be identified said his repentance would not absolve him from legal responsibility for his alleged comments.
Kashghari, 23, fled the country after the tweets were discovered by Saudi authorities but he was arrested in Malaysia and deported to the Kingdom on board a special plane. He has since then been detained in prison.
In an official statement, Kashghari announced that he had repented and asked for forgiveness. "I admit that my ideas and words were deviant. Some doubts had affected my thinking and drove me away from the correct path," he said.
He said he had completely abandoned all his wrong ideas and the tweets he wrote, saying he was depressed at the time.
Kashghari thanked family, relatives, friends and scholars who supported him and tried to guide him to the correct religious path.
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