Wife: Saudi blogger recommended for apostasy trial

[Jesus Malverde]

Source: CNN

A judge in Saudi Arabia has recommended that imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi go before a high court on a charge of apostasy, which would carry the death penalty upon conviction, according to Badawi's wife.

Ensaf Haidar initially told CNN on Wednesday that her husband had been sentenced to death. She later clarified to CNN that a judge has recommended he be tried for denouncing Islam, or apostasy. Apostasy carries the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International.

In July, a Jeddah criminal court found Badawi, who has been in prison since June 2012, guilty of insulting Islam through his Free Saudi Liberals website and in television comments.

Badawi was sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes. His lawyer appealed the decision.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/25/world/meast/saudi-blogger-death-sentence/

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Badawi's legal troubles started shortly after he started the Free Saudi Liberals website in 2008.

[SoapBox]

1. They love to kill.

[Jesus Malverde]

2. They love to rule...absolute rule.

That brings with it, the privilege to kill.

The saudi monarchs will not be able to continue to live in the finest european hotels if these troublemakers persist.

Saudi secular "liberal" - off with his head. Saudi Islamic fanatic unquestioning of the royal family - get that man a stipend.

Sad part is the United States has a deal to keep this nasty family in power.

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Since the 1930s

There have been two constants in U.S.-Saudi relations for decades: oil and Gulf security, particularly the security of the Saudi royal family. Our two societies have had little in common, and yet despite deep differences, we have had a “special relationship” with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for over sixty years, really since the early 1930s, though it was not described as a special relationship until after WWII. The two countries have had a compact based on Saudi oil in return for a U.S. security umbrella over the kingdom to protect it from all foreign foes. This is a relationship very definitely anchored in state interests, not common ideologies or political or social systems, which remain at extreme odds with each other.

There is practically no civil society in Saudi Arabia. The country is run by the al-Saud royal family in partnership with a highly conservative religious establishment espousing a fundamentalist theology known as Wahhabism. The alliance goes back to the mid-eighteenth century.

http://www.fpri.org/footnotes/1421.200908.ottaway.ussaudiarabia.html

[Javaman]

3. I give the saudi's about 10 more years...

after all the old crones croak, saudi arabia won't have the sway over the general population anymore.

on top of that, more and more 3rd world nationals are doing all the "slave" labor in that nation. Once the iron rulers are gone, the "slaves" will rise up. You can bank on it.

After that, the world will be a very different place.