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We are Raif: UK campaign for human rights in Saudi Arabia launched

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On October 16, 2015
  • 0 Comments
  • Raif Badawi
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

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 10, 2015
  • 2 Comments
  • Raif Badawi
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!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 24, 2015
  • 2 Comments
  • atheist, Iran, Mauritania, Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaiti, Raif Badawi, saudi Arabia, Sohail Arabi
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

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 8, 2015
  • 2 Comments
  • Bishoy Boulous Armia, Charlie Hebdo, Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, Fata Naoot, Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Raif Badawi, Soheil Arabi, Souad al-Shammary
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

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On September 18, 2013
  • 3 Comments
  • Raif Badawi
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?

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On August 2, 2013
  • 3 Comments
  • Raif Badawi, saudi Arabia
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 […]
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