Tag: Raif Badawi
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We are Raif: UK campaign for human rights in Saudi Arabia launched
We Are Raif: a campaign for free speech and human rights in Saudi Arabia Today, we announce the formation of ‘We Are Raif: a campaign for free speech and human rights in Saudi Arabia’. The coalition has been initiated by a number of human rights campaigners and organisations that have been working together for the…
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Call for political action to Free Raif Badawi and Waleed Abu Al-Khair
This call will be sent to the UK Prime Minister and the leaders of other political parties as an Open Letter at 5pm on Tuesday, 10th March. Please continue to add your name after that time. Further action will be necessary. Sign on to the letter here. Dear Sir/ Madam Saudi blogger Raif Badawi is…
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Stop executing “apostates” and “blasphemers” and release them now!
Press Release of Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain reproduced below: On 22 February 2015, a Saudi court sentenced a man in his twenties to death by beheading for apostasy. The identity of the man has not been made public but, according to Al-Shabaka, he was arrested last year and is charged with becoming an atheist…
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A defence of Charlie Hebdo must also turn into defence of other blasphemers and apostates
FRENCH: Toute défense de Charlie Hebdo doit également devenir celle d’autres blasphémateurs et apostats SPANISH – BELOW Those of us who have openly criticised Islam and Islamism have faced many a threat and intimidation from the far-Right Islamist movement. I have had phone calls saying I will be decapitated to recorded messages from the Islamic…
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Insult to humanity
I have written about Raif Badawi, the wonderful Saudi blogger and website editor calling for religious liberalisation who was recently sentenced to 7 years in prison and given 600 lashes (600!) for “insulting Islam”. His wife and three children have been forced to flee the country. Here’s what she says: What’s important now is that…
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On Raif Badawi: When is it going to end?
I reported on Raif Badawi before here. The founder of a website calling for religious liberalisation has been sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes. How does someone survive 600 lashes? Since they couldn’t execute him for apostasy as was initially planned, they hope to kill him with 600 lashes (150 at a…