Court upholds Saudi blogger’s jail, lashes

Saudi Arabia's supreme court has upheld a sentence of 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes against blogger Raif Badawi on charges of insulting Islam, his wife said yesterday, AFP reports from Dubai.
The judgement came despite worldwide outrage over his case.
Badawi received the first 50 of the 1,000 lashes he was sentenced to outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on January 9. Subsequent rounds of punishment were postponed on medical grounds.
Amnesty International slammed the "abhorrent" decision to uphold a "cruel and unjust sentence," describing it as a "dark day for freedom of expression."

Court upholds Saudi bloggers jail, lashes

Saudi Arabias supreme court has upheld a sentence of 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes against blogger Raif Badawi on charges of insulting Islam, his wife said yesterday, AFP reports from Dubai. The judgement came despite worldwide outrage over his case. Badawi received the first 50 of the 1,000 lashes he was sentenced to outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on January 9. Subsequent rounds of punishment were postponed on medical grounds. Amnesty International slammed the abhorrent decision to uphold a cruel and unjust sentence, describing it as a dark day for freedom of expression.