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Raif Badawi: Nine years in a Saudi prison | Middle East| News and analysis of events in the Arab world | DW


Raif Badawi: 9 years in a Saudi prison
Despite international pressure and efforts to secure his release, this week marks the ninth anniversary of the Saudi dissident s arrest.
Raif Badawi s wife has been integral to efforts to try to free him
Things are not going well for Raif Badawi. The Saudi Arabian writer has been in prison in the Gulf state since June 2012, when he was arrested for what he wrote on a website that he founded called Free Saudi Liberals.
Badawi was charged with insulting Islam by promoting secularism on his blog. In 2014, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a $266,000 fine and 1,000 lashes. Despite a number of international campaigns to try and secure an earlier release, he may well remain in jail in Saudi Arabia until late February 2022. This would be the date of his release according to the Islamic calendar that was used to sentence him. ....

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Saudi Arabia executes 26-year-old man for protesting against the government when he was a teen, human rights groups say


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news online, the UK-based non-profit organization said.
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Al-Darwish was arrested in May 2015 and charged with offenses related to his participation in protests - many of which occurred when he was 17 years old, according to Reprieve.
According to Reprieve, al-Darwish was placed in solitary confinement and beaten so badly that he lost consciousness several times.
To make the torture stop, he confessed to the charges against him, Reprieve said.
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Amnesty International, which had called for the execution to be halted last week, said al-Darwish was the latest victim of Saudi Arabia s deeply flawed justice system which regularly sees people sentenced to death after grossly unfair trials based on confessions extracted through torture. ....

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