{"id":39071,"date":"2019-04-21T06:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T06:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39071"},"modified":"2019-04-21T06:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T06:22:12","slug":"couple-could-face-death-penalty-over-sea-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39071","title":{"rendered":"Couple could face death penalty over &#8216;sea home&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>An American bitcoin trader and his girlfriend could face the death penalty after they were accused of threatening Thailand&#8217;s sovereignty by building and living in a &#8220;sea home&#8221; off the coast of Phuket.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Chad Elwartowski and his partner Nadia Supranee Thepdet have fled their home, built atop a platform around 12 miles off the coast of Phuket, and gone into hiding after authorities revoked the American&#8217;s visa.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">He had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c83TiSJ6sfA&#038;fbclid=IwAR2y4FwzAgqQ64Na0BULrKN9K57eFxaCKp-zxdTGRrkMobWs6AdOWkC-a6Q\" target=\"_blank\">promoted &#8220;seasteads&#8221; on social media<\/a> and claimed his home did not fall under the sovereignty of any country, which Thai authorities have said is untrue. He repeated the claim on Thursday, writing the home is &#8220;outside of Thailand territorial waters.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)An American bitcoin trader and his girlfriend could face the death penalty after they were accused of threatening Thailand&#8217;s sovereignty by building and living in a &#8220;sea home&#8221; off the coast of Phuket.Chad Elwartowski and his partner Nadia Supranee Thepdet have fled their home, built atop a platform around 12 miles off the coast of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}