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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Mil lashes and ten years in prison for criticizing the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia

Mil lashes and ten years in prison for criticizing the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia
Raif Badawi, a Saudi editor web where sometime in the highest religious authority was criticized, the Grand Mufti , has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and a thousand lashes, as media reported yesterday Saudi Arabia. Badawi was arrested in June 2012 on charges of "cyber crimes" and disobey his father. Sponsor a web of free speech in Saudi Arabia, entitled "Free Saudi Liberals". Raif Badawi was initially sentenced to 7 years in jail and 600 lashes in July last year; but his case was reviewed, and the sentence was finally increased. According to the Saudi liberal media, Badawi's sentence underscores the hardening of ideological repression in the oil superpower, subject to religious rules Wahhabi sect, perhaps the most fundamentalist Islam. The Wahhabi Muslim clergy gives legitimacy to the absolute monarchy of the House of Saud, and this corresponds to allowing Sharia, Islamic law, governs every corner of the kingdom.

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