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From the Gatestone Institute, Sep 21 2015

"Ali Mohammed al-Nimr was just 17 when he was arrested by the Saudi authorities in 2012, during a crackdown on anti-government protests in the Shia province of Qatif.
He was accused of participating in banned protests and firearms offenses -- despite a complete lack of evidence on the latter charge.
Denied access to lawyers, al-Nimr is alleged by human rights groups to have been tortured and then forced into signing a confession while in custody.
Campaigners say that it seems he has been targeted by authorities because of his family association with Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, the 53-year-old critic of the Saudi regime who is his uncle. The Sheikh has also been convicted and sentenced to death. After the confession and "trial," his nephew was convicted at Saudi's Specialized Criminal Court and sentenced to death. The trial itself failed to meet any international standards.
Al-Nimr appealed against his sentence, but this week that appeal was dismissed. It now seems likely that he and his uncle will now be executed.
Because charges include crimes involving the Saudi King and the state itself, it seems likely that the method of death will be crucifixion."

Edited from BBC News, Jan 09, 2015


A Saudi Arabian blogger has been publicly flogged. Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail, was flogged 50 times. The flogging will be carried out weekly, campaigners say.

Mr Badawi, the co-founder of a now banned website called the Liberal Saudi Network, was arrested in 2012.

Mr Badawi was also fined 1 million riyals ($266,000).

In 2013 he was cleared of apostasy, which could have carried a death sentence.

Last year Mr Badawi's lawyer was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of offences in an anti-terrorism court, the Associated Press news agency reported.

AFP news agency, quoting people at the scene, said Mr Badawi arrived at a Jeddah mosque in a police car and had the charges read out to him in front of a crowd.

He was then made to stand with his back to onlookers and whipped, though he remained silent, the witnesses said.

"The flogging of Raif Badawi is a vicious act of cruelty which is prohibited under international law," said Said Boumedouha of Amnesty International.

"By ignoring international calls to cancel the flogging Saudi Arabia's authorities have demonstrated an abhorrent disregard for the most basic human rights principles."

Saudi Arabia enforces a strict version of Islamic law and does not tolerate political dissent. It has some of the highest social media usage rates in the region, and has cracked down on domestic online criticism, imposing harsh punishments.
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Jan 16, 2015: WE DID IT! We all shone a light on Raif Balawi and Saudi Arabia halted the beatings which would certainly have killed him, slowly and painfully. Well done Amnesty International, US State Department and all of us!! Now we must keep screaming: DEPORT RAIF TO CANADA TO JOIN HIS WIFE AND 3 KIDS!!!! 
Jan 16, 2015: WE DID IT! We all shone a light on Raif Balawi and Saudi Arabia halted the beatings which would certainly have killed him, slowly and painfully. Well done Amnesty International, US State Department and all of us!! Now we must keep screaming: DEPORT RAIF TO CANADA TO JOIN HIS WIFE AND 3 KIDS!!!! 
Saudi Arabia has an ongoing war against its own people. Women are belongings. Free speech is banned. Criticism of any law is harshly punished. "Apostasy" or any act or word considered by courts of law to insult Islam, is punished by legal murder.
Humanity index of Saudi Arabia: below freezing, below 0oC.
"I’m not in support of the Israeli occupation of any Arab country, but at the same time I do not want to replace Israel by a religious state ... whose main concern would be spreading the culture of death and ignorance among its people when we need modernisation and hope. States based on religious ideology ... have nothing except the fear of God and an inability to face up to life. Look at what had happened after the European peoples succeeded in removing the clergy from public life and restricting them to their churches. They built up human beings and (promoted) enlightenment, creativity and rebellion. States which are based on religion confine their people in the circle of faith and fear. Raif Badawi, translation published in The Guardian, Jan 14 2015.

Statement on the Sentence of Saudi Human Rights Activist Raif Badawi


Press Statement
Jen Psaki
Department Spokesperson
Washington, DC
January 8, 2015

We are greatly concerned by reports that human rights activist Raif Badawi will start facing the inhumane punishment of a 1,000 lashes, in addition to serving a 10-year sentence in prison for exercising his rights to freedom of expression and religion. The United States Government calls on Saudi authorities to cancel this brutal punishment and to review Badawi’s case and sentence. The United States strongly opposes laws, including apostasy laws, that restrict the exercise of these freedoms, and urges all countries to uphold these rights in practice.