United States White House : Demand the release of Saudi Activist Raif Badawi & an end to 1000 lashes sentence

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Raif Badawi is an innocent man whose only crime was to speak out against the human rights abuses of the Saudi Arabia government. Now he is sentenced to 1000 lashes and 10 years in prison.



"Saudi Arabia is under mounting international pressure over the blogger Raif Badawi, whose public flogging has been postponed for a second consecutive week after a medical assessment.



... a medical committee said he should not undergo a second round of 50 lashes on health grounds.



Badawi, 31, was sentenced last May to 10 years’ imprisonment and 1,000 lashes – 50 at a time-over 20 weeks – and fined 1m Saudi riyals (£175,000). He has been held since mid-2012, and his Free Saudi Liberals website, established to encourage debate on religious and political matters in Saudi Arabia, is closed."



SOURCE: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/flogging-saudi-blogger-raif-badawi-postponed