Saudi blogger Raif Badawi has received the first
50 lashes of public flogging out of 1,000 for
“insulting Islam” via an online forum that he
launched. Jailed for ten years in prison, he
faces over $200,000 fine.
Badawi was taken to the square in front of the
al-Jafali mosque in shackles and flogged for 15
minutes and then he was driven away. The
witnesses say he was kept with his back to
onlookers and whipped, though he remained
silent, as reported by AFP.
The corporal punishment will be carried out for
20 weeks after Friday prayers outside the
mosque in Jeddah, according to Amnesty
International. That is the place famous for
executions carried out in and it has got a
nickname “Chop Chop Square”.
Raif Badawi’s persecution started in 2008 after
he co-founded the “Free Saudi Liberals”
website to discuss the role of religion in Saudi
Arabia. The network declared May 7, 2012 a
“day of liberalism” in the kingdom and called
for an end of religion domination over public
life.

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Nigerian singer, 9ice who recently delved into politics
and crashed out is currently in a hospital recuperating
from the shock loss.
The singer of ‘Gongo Aso’ fame fell ill after loosing out
at the Ogbomoso primary elections.
According to insiders, his physique has deteriorated
badly and he is looking like a ghost of himself and
doesn’t look like he is getting better

Cool gud news GeJ till somebody present his ceert

We knw especially in SW and whole north

Gej till 2024........ Year my ban on nairaland will expire

Bridgetown:
After NIgeria election I will comment.

funny wetin u do nw ?

They are doing everytiin to mak nigeria ungovernable

The woman who greets me at
Addis Ababa airport is very
different from the traumatised girl I
last saw in 1998. When I hugged
Aberash Bekele goodbye 16 years
ago, I had just finished filming a
BBC documentary about her called
Schoolgirl Killer. At 14, Bekele
was kidnapped by a gang of
horsemen, raped and then put on
trial for killing her abductor. Her
story forced Ethiopia to confront its
brutal customs and change its laws.
Today she’s the mother of a 10-
year-old son; she’s plumper, her
hair is hennaed and styled, her
shoes sparkly, her nails varnished
gold. Her story has now been made
into a feature film called Difret.
Executive produced by Angelina
Jolie, Difret has already won awards
at the Sundance, Berlin, Montreal
and Amsterdam film festivals and
Bekele is once again the talk of the
nation.
Bekele is one of 11 children (now
aged between 52 and 19) by the
same mother and grew up outside
Kersa, a small remote town in Arsii,
southern Ethiopia, where her
parents are subsistence farmers. She
was on her way home from school
when horsemen with whips and
lassoos surrounded her, grabbed
her, threw her over a saddle and
took her to a hut where she was
locked up and raped. Her rapist
then announced he was her
husband-to-be. In Arsii it was the
custom that if you wanted a wife
you went out and kidnapped one
and it’s estimated that, in 1998,
30% of marriages were initiated this
way, with varying levels of
violence.