Saudi activist could be executed for insulting Islam.

[vinyl 10]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/12/saudi-rights-activist-apostasy-20131226133128157979.html

 

Raef Badawi, jailed for setting up "liberal" network and insulting Islam, could face death penalty.

 

Badawi was arrested in June last year in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, and later sentenced to seven years in jail and 600 lashes for setting up a "liberal" network and for allegedly insulting Islam.

 

The network that he co-founded with female rights activist Suad al-Shammari had declared May 7, 2012 a "day of liberalism", and called for an end to the domination of religion over public life in Saudi Arabia.

 

After Badawi's original sentence, the appeals court sent the case back to the court of first instance, where a newly-appointed judge remanded it to the General Court. The judge said his lower court was not qualified to deal with the case, Abulkhair explained.

 

Badawi's wife, Ensaf Haidar, told online news website Sabq.org that "the new judge... demanded the death penalty" for her husband.

 

Is it great that countries like Saudi have entered the 17th century and anyone questioning the Islamic doctrine could face a death sentence.

Edited December 26, 2013 by vinyl

[Mr Clowning 10]

Do any good news storied ever come out of Saudi Arabia ?

[ricgem2002 11]

wheres bf when you need him

[vinyl 10]

Do any good news storied ever come out of Saudi Arabia ?

 

Some would have you believe so.

 

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1217163

 

However being charitable the sentence for allowing yourself to be raped has been reduced from 600 lashes to 550, although most women die after the first 100.

[Mr Clowning 10]

Some would have you believe so.

 

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1217163

 

However being charitable the sentence for allowing yourself to be raped has been reduced from 600 lashes to 550, although most women die after the first 100.

Wow word for word what I said lol

 

---------- Post added 26-12-2013 at 19:04 ----------

 

Ooop's, was reading my own words in your quote

[SevenRivers 10]

Saudi in 2012 requested the extradition a journalist from Malaysia for insulting the Prophet Muhammed on Twitter.

 

What's worrying is Interpol were possibly implicated in this instance in trying to enforce Sharia Law (Interpol deny any involvement).

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/10/interpol-journalist-arrested-muhammad-tweet

Edited December 26, 2013 by SevenRivers

[Mozilla 10]

2014 may well be the year the kingdom falls

[boyfriday 21]

wheres bf when you need him

 

Always behind you on threads like this fella

[ricgem2002 11]

Always behind you on threads like this fella

bit quiet on this one thou eh bf

[Mr Clowning 10]

Saudi in 2012 requested the extradition a journalist from Malaysia for insulting the Prophet Muhammed on Twitter.

 

What's worrying is Interpol were possibly implicated in this instance in trying to enforce Sharia Law (Interpol deny any involvement).

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/10/interpol-journalist-arrested-muhammad-tweet

 

Interpol deny any involvement, so if someone used their system via a hack of some kind or if someone pretended to be from Interpol and were not in order to get this arrest then wouldn't that make the arrest unlawful ?

 

If this is the case then someone should be seeking to have this man released.

[Marx 10]

Over half of the prisoners in Saudi are foreigners.

[Plain Talker 11]

Do any good news storied ever come out of Saudi Arabia ?

 

There probably are, but Vinyl doesn't appear to be searching for those.