Saudi Govt Pauses Flogging Dad-of-3 for Facebook Posts – After Docs Intervene
18th January 2015
Last Friday, Badawi received the first 50 of his 1,000-lash sentence in front of a large crowd at the Al-Jafali mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. He was due to receive the next fifty lashes of his sentence on Friday this week, but the beatings have been suspended until next week as he is not medically fit for more lashes, doctors have ruled.
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Good news, if it means a reprieve or reduction in sentence for Badawi. But he’s going to need a new legal adviser – because his former lawyer (and brother-in-law) Waleed Abu al-Khair was sentenced to more time prison by the Saudi authorities this week.
Last year, al-Khair was given a 15-year sentence for such diverse crimes as “insulting the judiciary and questioning the integrity of judges,” “harming the reputation of the state by communicating with international organizations,” and “preparing, storing and sending information that harms public order”.
Reminder for the dimwitted: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology, masquerading as a religion, with which no co-existence is possible.