Badawi is being publicly flogged 50 times each week over 20 weeks for insulting Islam. He is set to receive 50 lashes Friday in the Saudi port... Jailed Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi Faces Second Round Of ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates >> Saudi authorities on Friday postponed the second round of public flogging of a blogger convicted of insulting Islam after a doctor concluded that his wounds from the ...

Raif Badawi is being punished for insulting Islam. He was flogged Jan. 9, part of a sentence of 50 lashes a week for 20 weeks, along with a decade... Saudi authorities have once again canceled the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Saudi Arabia on Thursday to stop the serial flogging of an atheist and civil rights blogger sentenced to receive ...

Rights group Amnesty International said Thursday that Saudi Arabia would postpone the flogging of blogger Raef Badawi, whose case has sparked international criticism, for a second week on medical ...

Given the choice between five years in prison and 10 lashes, which would you chose? Peter Moskos, a criminologist and former Baltimore police officer, claims that flogging (a form of corporal ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has postponed Friday's public flogging of activist and blogger Raif Badawi on medical grounds, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Badawi was subjected to ...

Ensaf Haidar holds a picture of her husband, Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, after accepting the European Parliament's Sakharov human rights prize on his behalf — PATRICK HERTZOG Saudi blogger and rights ...

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