Raif Badawi
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Raif Badawi (Arabic: رائف بدوي, others translations Raef Badawi) is a Saudi blogger, writer, activist, and political dissident, most well know his arrest in 2012 on the charges of "insulting Islam through electronic channels" on his blog, Free Saudi Liberals.[1] Along with the charges of "insulting Islam" was apostasy, which carries the automatic death penalty in Saudi Arabia.[2] After the first trial in 2013 he was sentenced to 600 lashes, to be delivered fifty at a time weekly, and seven years in prison. In 2014 after an appeal the sentence was increased to ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes.[3]' Despite the apostasy charges, he insists he is a Muslim.
- ↑ PEN International/IFEX (11 January 2013). Prominent Saudi writer’s safety at risk after arrest. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information. Retrieved on 01 March 2017.
- ↑ Saudi Arabia - Laws Criminalizing Apostasy Library of Congress (May 2014)
- ↑ "Saudi Arabia is giving an atheist blogger 1,000 lashes", The Independent, 2016-10-21. (en-GB)