Saudi blogger's flogging 'to resume', says wife
Source: Telegraph UK
Saudi Arabia is to resume the flogging of Raif Badawi, the blogger whose first 50 lashes became the centre of an international outcry, his wife says she has been told.
Ensaf Haidar, who is now living in Canada with the couples children, said the same informed source who originally tipped her off to the flogging of her husband in January had told her the punishment was about to resume.
If the statement is true, it will be a snub to Britain, which privately and publicly has intervened in the case, and especially the Prince of Wales, regarded as one of the kingdoms oldest friends, who raised Mr Badawis case personally with King Salman on a visit in February.
It may also be a response to the government's decision to drop a contract with the Saudi prison system worth £5.9 million, believed to have been taken in protest at Saudi Arabia's human rights record.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11958478/Saudi-bloggers-flogging-to-resume-says-wife.html
Apparently flogging bloggers is a tool of the Saudis to score points on the world stage. Sick they are.
CincyDem
(6,283 posts)...sheesh. And we think of these folks as our friends. WTF is wrong with us.
I know, I know...oil.
Good that we scrapped that Carter plan for energy independence. The critics were right. It would have increased the cost of a gallon of gas to $1.30...and who in their right mind would be willing to pay a buck thirty.
Sheesh.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)The US gets very little oil if any from the Saudis. They do however sell them lots of weapons from US defense contractors.
CincyDem
(6,283 posts)I guess I knew we didn't get a lot of oil from Saudi but didn't make the connection. When in doubt, follow the money.
Thanks.
byronius
(7,369 posts)They're so North Korea with money.
get the red out
(13,459 posts)Very good line! Absolutely true.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)People we curry favor with. People at whose whim we fight and die for.
Jack Rabbit
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Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Time, technology and modernity are against them.
Elmergantry
(884 posts)who are we to impose our ways on them?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)doubt any of the '3 original religions' will ever go away but they all could use some evolution, upgrades and separating from government laws.
Elmergantry
(884 posts)Islam certainly could use a healthy does of evolution. Seem to be stuck in the 7th century. But it is something they have to do for themselves.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)Am I saying we should intervene militarily? No, but other pressures can be applied, economic, political, diplomatic, etc.
daleo
(21,317 posts)One we drop bombs on, the other we sell bombs and jets to.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)when they know a family member is stuck in one of Americas prisons for sometimes many decades. Mental torture for all.
Javaman
(62,442 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,158 posts)Parliament President Martin Schulz urged Saudi King Salman "to free him, so he can accept the prize".
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Earlier this month he also won the Pen Pinter Prize for championing free speech.
The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been awarded by the European Parliament since 1988 to individuals or organisations for their contribution to the fight for human rights and democracy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34667260
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)they are a malevolent, evil force on this planet, between their oil and their religion.