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Raif Badawi started a website called “Saudi
Arabian Liberals.” In 2008 he was arrested on a charge of apostasy
(which carried an automatic death sentence). He had stated that
he was a Muslim but “everyone has a choice to believe or not
believe.” After a day of questioning he was released, but his
bank account was frozen and he was forbidden to leave the country.
His wife's family filed a court action to divorce the couple forcibly
on grounds of his apostasy. In 2012 he was arrested for “ridiculing
religious figures” and “going beyond the realm of obedience.”
He had suggested that the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud University had
become “a den for terrorists.” In 2013 he was found guilty
of creating a website that “violates Islamic values and propagates
liberal thought,” and sentenced to seven years in prison and
six hundred lashes. In 2013 his wife and three children escaped
to asylum in Canada. His lawyer, Waleed Abulkhair, was sentenced
to fifteen years for setting up an organization called Monitor of
Human Rights in Saudi Arabia. In 2014 Raif's sentenced was increased
to ten years, a fine of a million riyal ($267,000), and a thousand
lashes. He was imprisoned in Jeddah; after release he would be banned
from leaving the country for ten years, and permanently banned from
using online media. And meanwhile, he would be taken out to a public
square evwery second Friday and receive fifty of his thousand lashes. ”
HRH Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud
Amnesty International's Urgent Action of January 9 gives 3 more target addresses: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE23/002/2015/en/5d9925fa-a628-4b76-be35-97236cd1bfe5/mde230022015en.html
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