Friday, February 20, 2015

Raif Badawi: Why won’t Saudi Arabia talk about blogger’s flogging?

IT WAS the brutal flogging which shocked the world.

But Saudi Arabia is remaining tight-lipped over the punishment handed down to blogger Raif Badawi who was sentenced to a public flogging every week for 20 weeks for insulting Islam.

The father-of-three was publicly whipped last month, receiving the first 50 lashes in an act which made global headlines.

One eyewitness told human rights organisation Amnesty International that Badawi was lashed on his back and legs without any break for at least five minutes.

He was flogged after Friday prayers when he was lashed 50 times outside al-Jafali mosque in Jeddah and was set to receive the same punishment every week for months. Full story...

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