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Wife Of Flogged Saudi Blogger Appeals Directly To King Abdulaziz

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2015 · People & Blogs

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Ensaf Haidar tells Christiane Amanpour she believes that her husband, the blogger Raif Badawi, will soon receive a second round of lashes in Saudi Arabia.

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Saudi blogger Raif Badawi awarded Sakharov human rights prize (BBC, Oct 29, 2015)
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"Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, whose flogging sentence caused an outcry, has been awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov human rights prize.

Parliament President Martin Schulz urged Saudi King Salman "to free him, so he can accept the prize".

Mr Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes in Saudi Arabia for "insulting Islam".

Earlier this month he also won the Pen Pinter Prize for championing free speech.

The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been awarded by the European Parliament since 1988 to individuals or organisations for their contribution to the fight for human rights and democracy.

It is named after the Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov..."



Saudi high court upholds prison term, 1,000 lashes, blogger's sister says (CNN, June 8, 2015)
http://cnn.it/1MmCP9o

"Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upheld a sentence of 10 years imprisonment and 1,000 lashes for blogger Raif Badawi, his sister, Samar Badawi, said Monday. Badawi's sister went to the Jeddah court Monday to follow up on a local media report that an appeal was denied. There, she received confirmation from the court that the sentence was upheld.

Badawi who has been imprisoned since 2012, was charged with violating Saudi Arabia's information technology law and insulting Islam through his website "Saudi Arabian Liberals." The lashings are to be carried out 50 lashes at a time, 20 weeks in a row. Badawi endured the first 50 of the 1,000 lashes stoically in January, arching his back in pain. The flogging provoked an outcry from human rights groups and U.S. officials.

"Publicly lashing a peaceful activist merely for expressing his ideas sends an ugly message of intolerance," Human Rights Watch said at the time. And Said Boumedouha, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Middle East, called for Badawi's immediate release...."




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