This guy is so brave: Raif Badawi tells of flogging ordeal in letter from Saudi prison
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi has written in his first letter from prison of how he “miraculously survived 50 lashes”, part of his sentence for “insulting Islam”, a German news weekly has said.
Badawi, 31, recalled that he was “surrounded by a cheering crowd who cried incessantly ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is greatest)” during the whipping, according to a pre-released article from Der Spiegel’s edition to be published on Saturday.
Badawi received the first 50 of the 1,000 lashes he was sentenced to outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on 9 January. Subsequent rounds of punishment were postponed on medical grounds.
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Saudi Arabia in early March dismissed criticism of its flogging of Badawi and “strongly denounced the media campaign around the case
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/raif-badawi-tells-of-flogging-ordeal-in-letter-from-saudi-prison
Fuck the Saudi government. And fuck each and every cheering member of that crowd .
