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Raif Badawi: Saudi Death Penalty for Internet Posting

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Written by bruce k.   
Sunday, 11 January 2015 09:37

Raif Badawi ....

His Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raif_Badawi says:

Raif Badawi (born c. 1984,is a Saudi Arabian writer and activist and the creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals. Both Raif and his sister Samar are seventh graded education.

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Trial and sentence[edit]
On 17 June 2012, he was arrested on a charge of insulting Islam through electronic channels,[1] and in December of that year was also cited for apostasy, a conviction which carries an automatic death sentence.[4][5] Human Rights Watch stated that Badawi's website had hosted material criticizing "senior religious figures".[5] Badawi had also suggested that Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University had become "a den for terrorists."


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There is a lot more about Raif, but most recently, this is what is happening to him: http://www.amnestyusa.org/sites/default/files/emails/W1501EAIAR4.html

... An eyewitness shared his account of Raif's brutal flogging with Amnesty. It's almost too difficult to read.

"Raif was escorted from a bus and placed in the middle of the crowd, guarded by eight or nine officers. He was handcuffed and shackled but his face was not covered - everyone could see his face...

A security officer approached him from behind with a huge cane and started beating him.

Raif raised his head towards the sky, closing his eyes and arching his back. He was silent, but you could tell from his face and his body that he was in real pain.

The officer beat Raif on his back and legs, counting the lashes until they reached 50.

The punishment took about 5 minutes. It was very quick, with no break in between lashes."

Saudi Arabian authorities' decision to inflict such a vicious, cruel form of punishment on a nonviolent activist like Raif is shocking. But it is imperative that we neither look away from such cruelty, nor be shocked into silence.

Raif's ordeal is only beginning - he is scheduled to be flogged another 950 times over the next 19 weeks.

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