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Thursday, January 22, 2015
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Thursday, January 22, 2015
Saudi Arabia to postpone blogger’s flogging
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRights group Amnesty International says that Saudi Arabia would postpone the flogging of blogger Raef Badawi, whose case has sparked international criticism, for a second week on medical grounds.
“The planned flogging of Raef Badawi will be suspended this Friday after a medical committee assessed that he should not undergo a second round of lashes on health grounds,” the London-based watchdog says in a statement.
He has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam and is serving a 10-year jail sentence.
Badawi, 30, received the first 50 lashes of his sentence outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on January 9.
— AFP
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