{"id":31248,"date":"2016-12-21T01:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T01:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/killer-of-author-nahed-hattar-sentenced-to-death\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T01:48:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T01:48:03","slug":"killer-of-author-nahed-hattar-sentenced-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/killer-of-author-nahed-hattar-sentenced-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer of author Nahed Hattar sentenced to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Christian leftist author Nahed Hattar was killed in September outside an Amman court as he went on trial for blasphemy.}<\/p>\n<p>A Jordanian judge has sentenced to death by hanging the man accused of killing Nahed Hattar, a Christian writer, on the steps of a court earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Riyad Ismail was handed the death penalty on Tuesday, state news agency Petra said.<\/p>\n<p>Ismail shot Hattar at close range on September 25 as the writer was about to to enter a court in the Jordanian capital Amman. He was hit by three bullets.<\/p>\n<p>Hattar, 56, had been on trial for blasphemy for sharing a cartoon on social media that was deemed offensive to Islam by many Jordanian Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Ismail, a 49-year-old computer engineer, worked for the education ministry.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested at the scene and charged with premeditated murder, terrorism and possession of an illegal firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Ismail appeared on Tuesday before the military court bearded, handcuffed and wearing a brown prison uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Ziad al-Edwan said  Ismail was sentenced &#8220;for having carried out deadly terrorist act&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The court also sentenced the man who sold Ismail the gun and the man who introduced him to the weapons merchant, each to one year in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Hattar, a leftist, had been arrested on August 13 after posting a cartoon on Facebook under the title &#8220;God of Daesh&#8221;, which uses the Arabic abbreviation for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).<\/p>\n<p>He was later released on bail.<\/p>\n<p>He explained on Facebook that the cartoon made fun of &#8220;terrorists and how they imagine God and heaven, and does not insult God in anyway&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>His murder, which King Abdullah II branded a &#8220;heinous crime&#8221;, prompted protests in Jordan, with demonstrators calling on the government to resign.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17188 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7c1e13ce243a4a3988a07346ab1c2691_18.jpg\" alt=\"Hattar was shot at close range on September 25 in Amman\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Christian leftist author Nahed Hattar was killed in September outside an Amman court as he went on trial for blasphemy.} A Jordanian judge has sentenced to death by hanging the man accused of killing Nahed Hattar, a Christian writer, on the steps of a court earlier this year. 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