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Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Cooldude001: 3:50am On Dec 26, 2013
Raif Badawi, a blogger in Saudi Arabia who has been imprisoned for violating the nation's anti-cybercrime law, was given the

death penalty for apostasy by a higher court Wednesday, his wife told CNN.

Badawi founded the Free Saudi Liberals website and was originally given a seven-year sentence in July.

A Jeddah criminal court found Badawi, who has been in prison since June 2012, guilty of insulting Islam through his website and in television

comments. His lawyer appealed the sentence, which also included 600 lashes.

A higher court found him guilty of apostasy, his wife said.

From April: Family pleads for blogger

"It is an emotion I cannot describe. I never imagined this would happen," she said. "I thought maybe they would reduce the sentence but this is

unimaginable. The whole thing is about a website."

Badawi's legal troubles started shortly after he started the Free Saudi Liberals website in 2008. He was detained for one day and questioned

about the site. Some clerics even branded him an unbeliever and apostate.

Human rights groups accuse Saudi authorities of targeting activists through the courts and travel bans. Amnesty International has said Badawi's

"is clear case of intimidation against him and others who seek to engage in open debates about the issues that Saudi Arabians face in their daily

lives."

CNN could not reach the Saudi Arabian government officials for comment.

Badawi's wife, Ensaf Haidar, and the couple's three children now live in Lebanon.

Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by IboKiller: 4:07am On Dec 26, 2013
Saudi is a cursed nation.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Nobody: 4:13am On Dec 26, 2013
Ibo-Killer:
Saudi is a cursed nation.
Make that Islam

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by emmanuelson20: 5:27am On Dec 26, 2013
Omg!!! No right to free speech because of Religion!!! To think you can't practice any religion except Islam without being sentenced to death is so unthinkable!!! Yet People scream Its a religion of peace!!!

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Theben(m): 5:49am On Dec 26, 2013
Backward country. Never knew this kinda law still exist. I only read it in the Bible. Old testament o and that was the time of Nebudcadnezar.

Religion of peace indeed.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by AbdulAdam56(m): 6:06am On Dec 26, 2013
Allahu Akbar,masha Allah.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by captcochrane(m): 6:25am On Dec 26, 2013
not too gud

but i heard dt in saudi, attacking d government is treason, d guy probably knows dt b4 he started his cyber stuff, he shd av done it outside d country

where there's no law, no sin; d guy knew d law

nd is saudi arabia same as Islam??

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Firefire(m): 6:26am On Dec 26, 2013
I reserved my comments

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by vedaxcool(m): 6:28am On Dec 26, 2013
jerseyboy:
Make that Islam

Dude islam is not a country, even reprobates know it is a religion.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by angelTI(f): 6:51am On Dec 26, 2013
Too bad; just too bad!

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by onyeomaonyeoma(m): 7:06am On Dec 26, 2013
Just because of website someone is gonna die

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by IAMBREEZY: 7:10am On Dec 26, 2013
Too bad.
Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by mysticgal(f): 7:20am On Dec 26, 2013
If the lawyers had known,they would never had appealed

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Gamji007: 7:31am On Dec 26, 2013
Ibo-Killer:
Saudi is a cursed nation.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

I pity you. sad

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Gamji007: 7:34am On Dec 26, 2013
Theben: Backward country. Never knew this kinda law still exist. I only read it in the Bible. Old testament o and that was the time of Nebudcadnezar.

Religion of peace indeed.

Olodo! cheesycheesycheesy

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Segadem(m): 7:36am On Dec 26, 2013
Please can anybody explain it to me in a lay man language. Was it because he developed free website or there is another crime he commited which is not mention in this article?

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Nobody: 8:19am On Dec 26, 2013
When they finally kill this one, thousands will rise after him. The beginning of the end of a deluded nation.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Temismith(f): 8:29am On Dec 26, 2013
Let MƐ kip quiet first aπϑ be looking.:X

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Nobody: 8:44am On Dec 26, 2013
if that is applied in Nigeria,or Nairaland,omo,people wey dem go give death sentence go yapa be dat..i love my country,despite all the shortcomings.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by simpleseyi: 9:09am On Dec 26, 2013
Ibo-Killer:
Saudi is a cursed nation.

Nigerian Christians and Muslims are queuing at their embassy in Lagos and Abuja.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by duni04(m): 9:37am On Dec 26, 2013
emmanuelson20: Omg!!! No right to free speech because of Religion!!!
Its the other way round, they're using religion to suppress freedom of speech

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Nobody: 9:52am On Dec 26, 2013
Gamji007:

Olodo! cheesycheesycheesy

I think you are the stark Olodo here. Perhaps, you should try and read before you comment.

N.B: Extremism is not good for you, quit being one.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by zeelo2014: 10:09am On Dec 26, 2013
But the same Muslims will cry blue murder whenever there's a little discrimination against them in non-Islamic nations.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Gamji007: 10:27am On Dec 26, 2013
emmy-richie:


I think you are the stark Olodo here. Perhaps, you should try and read before you comment.

N.B: Extremism is not good for you, quit being one.

A Nigerian calling Saudi Arabia a Backward country?

Olodo! cheesycheesycheesy

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by lauyanAbuja: 10:43am On Dec 26, 2013
Don't do the crime, if u don't wanna do the time. This are people that Western imperialist influence to insult islam.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Nobody: 10:45am On Dec 26, 2013
simpleseyi:

Nigerian Christians and Muslims are queuing at their embassy in Lagos and Abuja.
ODE YOUR MOON god NO DEY ALLOW YOU REASON WELLA AGAIN ABI

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by ChiSun27(m): 12:01pm On Dec 26, 2013
And this is head of Religion of Peace...I laff in ofe nmanu tongue.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by MeAboki(m): 12:02pm On Dec 26, 2013
Theben: Backward country. Never knew this kinda law still exist. I only read it in the Bible. Old testament o and that was the time of Nebudcadnezar.

Religion of peace indeed.

Hypocrite, so you admit its in your bible, yet you are rejecting it - does Christianity allow you to choose and pick from your scripture?
If yes, then what you have is not Christianity but a fake religion that is man-made, revised and continually being revised by humans - I guess that's how you guys arrived at the various versions of your so called bible - king James version and what-not.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Horus(m): 12:07pm On Dec 26, 2013
Thousands of Africans who have lived all their lives in Saudi Arabia are being repatriated daily right now, after loosing an arm or leg for some minor or trumped up offense and without regard for their comfort, welfare or rights. Racism towards Africans Moslems in Saudi Arabia is so strong it makes one wonder if making pilgrimage to Mecca should be one of the five pillars of the Muslim faith, and why Africans bother to be Muslim.
Arabs do not consider Black Moslems authentic or of consequence. At best, they concede to blacks, the role of ordained slaves or animals, to be used as beasts of burden by the “superior Arab race.” The rule applies to all blacks, whether Moslems or non-Moslems and whether of Nigerian (Hausa/Fulani or Yoruba extractions),Tanzanians, Ugandans, Malians or African-Americans.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Shekson(m): 12:16pm On Dec 26, 2013
emmanuelson20: Omg!!! No right to free speech because of Religion!!!
Guy in dis world, there is freedom OF speech. Freedom AFTER speech is just not guaranteed. Not even Amnesty International can guarantee you dat.
So please watch what you say wif yur mouth anywhere you are. It's an advice to all and sundry.

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by Guykhena(m): 1:06pm On Dec 26, 2013
Ibo-Killer:
Saudi is a cursed nation.
. No every islam nation is cursed,,they kill for fun(no offence 2 muslims)

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Re: Wife: Saudi Blogger Sentenced To Death For Apostasy by forumcitizens: 1:11pm On Dec 26, 2013
This Religion is always making news for all the bad stuffs. cry

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