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  Jailed Saudi blogger wins EU rights prize but faces 1000 lashes at home

  World | October 29, 2015 16:40 IST

  Brussels: A Saudi blogger sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Muslim clerics has won the European Union's prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights.EU lawmakers said Thursday that Raif Badawi was

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  Worldwide outrage as Saudi blogger Raif Badawi recovers, to get remaining 950 lashes

  World | January 22, 2015 16:53 IST

  Jeddah: Even as there is outcry among netizens all over the world after a Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi was given 50 out of the prescribed 1,000 lashes, the young man is still recovering.On last

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  Saudi blogger to be publicly given 1,000 lashes, 10 years jail for insulting Islam

  World | January 13, 2015 17:42 IST

  Dubai: A Saudi blogger who was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes will be publicly flogged for the first time after Friday prayers outside a mosque in the Red Sea