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Friday 9 January 2015

U.S. State Department Defends Raif Badawi Just Before He is Lashed 50 Times for “Insulting Islam”



It doesn’t look like there’s much we can do now. Raif Badawi, the Saudi Arabian blogger, will receive the first batch of his 1,000 lashes today. All for the “crime” of running a progressive website that called for, among other things, religious tolerance and women’s rights.

by José Lourenço via Facebook at January 09, 2015 at 03:04PM

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