Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger who was sentenced to a decade in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, now faces being beheaded for renouncing the religion, his family have said.
- They claimed to have learned of attempts within the Saudi judicial system to have Raif Badawi retried for the crime, which carries a death sentence. Amnesty International said it was looking into the claims, which could not be verified on Sunday evening.
- “Over a million people have called for Raif’s freedom. That should be the only development we’re hearing about.”
- But his family, who cited “information from reliable sources” they did not name, now believe that the case has been referred on again to the country’s Penal court under regulations introduced last autumn.
This shows that digital media is very influential in the modern day because people may still have the freedom to say anything on line but there still is a limit.
No comments:
Post a Comment