{"id":2794,"date":"2009-12-23T00:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T08:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2011-03-23T23:23:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:23:04","slug":"lawyer-hasans-religious-rights-violated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/23\/lawyer-hasans-religious-rights-violated\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer: Hasan&#8217;s Religious Rights Violated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lawyer for accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan has said his client&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/hotstories\/6781557.html\">religious rights have been violated<\/a> by policies that restrict his freedoms during his confinement in the hospital.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pretrial restrictions on Hasan [include] a requirement that he speak only in English with visitors or on the phone, unless an Army-approved translator is present&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Attorney John P. Galligan said he learned that police guarding Hasan&#8230;cut short a phone conversation Hasan was having with one of his brothers on Friday because Hasan was not speaking in English.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police at the hospital refused to let him pray, in Arabic, from the Quran with his brother,&#8221; Galligan said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s illegal and a violation of his religious rights.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article cites &#8220;those familiar with&#8221; military justice in saying that the restrictions, while potentially non-standard in the civilian sector, would not necessarily be unusual within the military criminal justice system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawyer for accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan has said his client&#8217;s religious rights have been violated by policies that restrict his freedoms during his confinement in the hospital. Pretrial restrictions on Hasan [include] a requirement that he speak only in English with visitors or on the phone, unless an Army-approved translator is present&#8230; Attorney John P. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,4,97,19,44,2,1431,11,10],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-churchandstate","tag-fort-hood","tag-government","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-nidal-malik-hasan","tag-prayer","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}