{"id":2098,"date":"2014-02-27T18:35:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T12:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:08:04","slug":"in-the-media-this-this-how-i-ended-up-in-a-qatari-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/in-the-media-this-this-how-i-ended-up-in-a-qatari-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Media: This is how I ended up in a Qatari Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Returning to Nepal on May 13, 2013, after spending&nbsp;<a title=\"Qatar\u2026From Afar: 121212\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/qatar-from-afar-121212\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11 nights 12 days in a Qatari jail<\/a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a title=\"Qatar\u2026From Afar: Mayday Mayday May Day\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/qatar-from-afar-mayday-mayday-may-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegedly insulting Islam<\/a>, I discovered considerable media interest in&nbsp;<a title=\"Qatar\u2026From Afar: The Timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/qatar-from-afar-the-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my story<\/a>. I had a number of interviews the week I arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <em>Setopati<\/em>&nbsp;journalist, Manoj Dahal, wrote this particular one&nbsp;following a longish conversation.&nbsp;<a title=\"Ma Yesari Jail Parey\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kantipur-Kosheli-article-Ma-yesari-jail-parey-May-18-2013-150px.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;or on the image itself for the original.&nbsp;Or,&nbsp;<a title=\"This is how I ended up in a Qatari Jail\" href=\"http:\/\/setopati.com\/samaj\/702\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>&nbsp;for the online version. Or, if you can&#8217;t read Nepali,&nbsp;<em>Nepali Times<\/em>&nbsp;published an English translation.&nbsp;<a title=\"Dorje Gurung&#039;s Story\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/in-the-media- dorje-gurungs-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(If interested, <a title=\"In The Media: This is How I Ended up in Jail\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/in-the-media-this-is-how-i-ended-up-in-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a> for another one published at around the same time in <em>Kantipur<\/em>, also in Nepalese.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not surprisingly, a number of things I did say didn&#8217;t make it in the final print. But surprisingly, some things that I <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> say did!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/setopati-May-14-2013-interview-150px-hig-q-cropped.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/setopati-May-14-2013-interview-150px-hig-q-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Setopati May 14 2013 interview.\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to Nepal on May 13, 2013, after spending 11 nights 12 days in a Qatari jail for allegedly insulting Islam, I discovered considerable media interest in my story. I had a number of interviews the week I arrived. A Setopati journalist, Manoj Dahal, wrote this particular one following a longish conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Another interview, also in Nepali, published soon after my arrival in Kathmandu, way back in May. http:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-xQ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[174,629,123,113],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qatar","category-qatar-academy","tag-articles-in-nepali","tag-in-the-media","tag-interviews","tag-newspaper-articles"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/setopati-featured-image1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-xQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29891,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/29891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}