Insulting Islam online blogger activist sentenced ten years prison publicly flogged 1,000 lashes. Raif Badawi sentenced to ten years in prison.
And 1,000 lashes set to be publicly flogged in Saudi Arabia for ‘insulting ‘Islam’.
The activist will publicly flogged at Jiddah mosque. He sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail in May last year.
Badawi found guilty of cyber crime and ridiculing Islamic figures. He set up online forum Free Saudi Liberals which shut down
A Saudi blogger will publicly flogged tomorrow as part of his 10-year jail term for ‘ridiculing Islamic religious figures’.
Raif Badawi, who co-founded the Free Saudi Liberals website, arrested in 2012.
And sentenced to 1,000 lashes and a decade in prison for insulting Islam on his online forum.
His corporal punishment will carried out after Friday prayers.
Outside the Al-Juffali mosque in Jiddah, which has earned the grisly nickname ‘Chop Chop Square’ as the site of executions.
Insulting Islam online blogger activist sentenced ten years prison publicly flogged 1,000 lashes.
The online activist found guilty of cyber-crime in May last year.
And ordered by the Jiddah Criminal Court to pay a fine of 1 million Saudi riyals, or about £175,900.
Online blogger activist sentenced to prison and 1,000 lashes.
He was also charged with apostasy, which carries the death penalty in the Saudi Kingdom, but he was cleared of this crime in 2013.
Insulting Islam online blogger activist sentenced ten years prison publicly flogged 1,000 lashes.
Badawi called his family from prison and informed them of the flogging, according to the Associated Press.
Amnesty International said Badawi would receive 50 lashes on Friday and the rest of the sentence would carried out over a period of 50 weeks.
‘It horrifying to think that such a vicious and cruel punishment should imposed on someone.
Who guilty of nothing more than daring to create a public forum for discussion and peacefully exercising.
The right to freedom of expression,’ said Philip Luther, Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa director.
A whip, a leather strap or a long cane may used to carry out floggings in Saudi Arabia.
According to corpun.com, a website dedicated to the study of corporal punishment.
‘Sometimes the lashes confined to the buttocks, more often it seems they spread out from the neck to the ankles.
And usually with the prisoner simply lying face down on the ground.
Insulting Islam online blogger activist sentenced ten years prison publicly flogged 1,000 lashes.
A whip, a leather strap or a long cane may used to carry out floggings in Saudi Arabia (pictured)
‘In one or two reports the offender said to tied upright to a post,’ said corpun.com.
Insulting Islam online blogger activist sentenced ten years prison publicly flogged 1,000 lashes.
Badawi originally sentenced in 2013 to seven years in prison and 600 lashes, but after an appeal, the judge stiffened the punishment.
Online blogger activist sentenced to prison and 1,000 lashes
He will publicly flogged tomorrow as part of his 10-year jail term for ‘ridiculing Islamic religious figures’.
Following his arrest, his wife and children left the kingdom for Canada.
Badawi’s lawyer Waleed Abul-Khair sentenced in July to 15 years imprisonment and barred from traveling for another 15 years.
After found guilty by an anti-terrorism court of ‘undermining the regime.
Officials,’ ”inciting public opinion’ and ‘insulting the judiciary.’ Saudi Arabia’s legal code follows Sharia Muslim law.
Judges trained as religious scholars and broad scope to base verdicts and sentences on their own interpretation of religious texts.
Blogger sentenced to ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes set to publicly flogged in Saudi Arabia for ‘insulting ‘Islam’.
