{"id":37534,"date":"2026-03-24T05:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/37534\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:32:09","slug":"bali-police-arrest-swiss-man-for-allegedly-insulting-hindu-holiday-archipelago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/37534\/","title":{"rendered":"Bali Police arrest Swiss man for allegedly insulting Hindu holiday – Archipelago"},"content":{"rendered":"

he Bali Police have arrested a Swiss man accused of using expletives to denigrate a Hindu religious holiday observed on the tourist island of Bali, a police official said.<\/p>\n

Luzian Andrin Zgraggen risks up to five years in prison on hate speech charges, Bali Police spokesman Ariasandy said in a statement late Sunday that did not specify the suspect’s age.<\/p>\n

Bali’s Day of Silence or “Nyepi,” was celebrated on Thursday and requires locals and tourists on the Hindu-majority island to stay at home for 24 hours for self-reflection.<\/p>\n

No work, travel, entertainment and even electricity use is discouraged.<\/p>\n

Zgraggen was arrested on Saturday after he was reported to police over an Instagram post, said Ariasandy.<\/p>\n

In the post, he repeatedly used the “f” word to refer to the holiday.<\/p>\n

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The tourist stands accused of spreading hate speech online, an offense which under the nation’s new Criminal Code can land him as many as five years in prison.<\/p>\n

Ariasandy said police would seize Zgraggen’s iPhone and question witnesses.<\/p>\n

Bali attracts millions of foreign visitors each year but has seen recent high-profile cases of misbehaving tourists.<\/p>\n

Last week, authorities on the resort island arrested two French nationals and an Italian on accusations of producing and distributing pornography, which is forbidden in the Muslim-majority country, which officially recognizes six religions as well as indigenous beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"he Bali Police have arrested a Swiss man accused of using expletives to denigrate a Hindu religious holiday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21770,1655,21892,9516,21769,13866,41,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-37534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-bali","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-hate-speech","11":"tag-indonesia","12":"tag-nyepi","13":"tag-religion","14":"tag-swiss","15":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116282520429673665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37534","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=37534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}