{"id":36994,"date":"2026-03-23T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/36994\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:41:08","slug":"swiss-tourist-arrested-in-bali-for-allegedly-insulting-hindu-holiday-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/36994\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss tourist arrested in Bali for allegedly insulting Hindu holiday online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DENPASAR, March 23 \u2014 Indonesian authorities have arrested a Swiss man accused of insulting a Hindu religious holiday on the resort island of Bali.<\/p>\n<p>According to AFP, Luzian Andrin Zgraggen faces up to five years in prison under Indonesia\u2019s hate speech laws.<\/p>\n<p>Bali police spokesman Ariasandy said the man was detained on Saturday after being reported over an Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, he allegedly used repeated expletives to refer to Nyepi, Bali\u2019s Day of Silence.<\/p>\n<p>The annual observance, marked last Thursday, requires residents and tourists to remain indoors for 24 hours for self-reflection, with restrictions on work, travel and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect is being investigated for spreading hate speech online, an offence under Indonesia\u2019s criminal code that carries a maximum five-year jail term.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are expected to seize his mobile phone and question witnesses as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The case comes amid a series of incidents involving foreign tourists in Bali, including recent arrests of three Europeans over alleged pornography-related offences. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENPASAR, March 23 \u2014 Indonesian authorities have arrested a Swiss man accused of insulting a Hindu religious holiday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21770,21771,9516,21768,21769,41,21772,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-36994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-bali","9":"tag-hate-speech-charges","10":"tag-indonesia","11":"tag-luzian-andrin-zgraggen","12":"tag-nyepi","13":"tag-swiss","14":"tag-swiss-tourist-in-bali","15":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116277837109684666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}