Freedom of speech is the air that any thinker breathes; it s the fuel that ignites the fire of an intellectual s thoughts. Raif Badawi dared to write such things in Saudi Arabia. And he exercised his own freedom of speech, asking questions about faith and challenging extremism in that country so he was imprisoned for apostasy for 10 years. He was flogged, although he s not yet received the 1,000 lashes he was sentenced to, because a doctor determined it was too much. He s been separated from his young family since his detention in 2014.
His legal team has written of the various ways his imprisonment is unjust. In 2018, they wrote in Time: His sentence of lashings was itself illegal as physical torture is prohibited under the Arab Charter on Human Rights, ratified by Saudi Arabia in 2009, and the U.N. s Convention Against Torture, which the nation ratified in 1997. The criminalization of Badawi was ultimately the criminalization of the protected rights he sought to exercise an
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.People paddle board along the Potomac River in Washington June 25, 2021. This year s International Religious Summit will be held in the nation s capital July 13-15. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
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WASHINGTON (CNS) Religious freedom advocates released a charter declaring the right of every person around the world to freely believe or not believe religious tenets and join with others in a religious community and for believers and religious communities to live peacefully in society.
Titled A Charter of Religious Freedom, the document was released in advance of the International Religious Freedom Summit planned for the nation s capital and online July 13-15.
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