Document with 250000 signatures to be handed over to effect a year since the jailed blogger received 50 lashes in JeddahSupporters of Raif Badawi,the jailed Saudi activist and blogger, plan to hand over a petition with 250000 signatures to the Saudi embassy in London on Friday calling for his release.
A separate petition for the release of Badawi’s lawyer, or Waleed Abu al-Khair,will also be handed over to effect a year since Badawi received 50 lashes in a public square in Jeddah. He was sentenced to 1000 lashes and 10 years in prison for insulting Islam. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com