Saudi Arabia, a place where one can still visit the seventh century and not be in a museum.
What a nightmare of a country, where only the only thing that separates it from the Islamic State is the name.
Saudi Arabia’s supreme court upholds sentence of 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes against blogger for insulting Islam
Leaked video footage taken on a mobile phone showed the first flogging session as it was carried out in public in January
- Raif Badawi was fined and sentenced to 10 years’ in jail for insulting Islam
- Mobile phone footage of him taking his first 50 lashes surfaced in January
- But the Saudi Arabian punishment was suspended on medical grounds
- It raised hopes the internationally condemned sentence would be cancelled
- But Mr Badawi’s wife claims it has been upheld and the decision is final
Saudi Arabia’s supreme court has upheld a sentence of 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes against blogger Raif Badawi on charges of insulting Islam, his wife has claimed.
The judgement came despite worldwide outrage over his case and criticism from the United Nations, the U.S., the European Union, Canada and others.
Badawi received the first 50 of the 1,000 lashes he was sentenced to outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on January 9, but subsequent rounds of punishment were postponed on medical grounds.
Blogger Raif Badawi’s sentence of 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes will be upheld, his wife says
