UNDERNEWS: News from our allies

November 24, 2015

News from our allies

Reuters - “A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a Palestinian poet to death for apostasy, abandoning his Muslim faith, according to trial documents seen by Human Rights Watch, its Middle East researcher Adam Coogle said on Friday. Ashraf Fayadh was detained by the country’s religious police in 2013 in Abha, in southwest Saudi Arabia, and then rearrested and tried in early 2014.” Middle East Eye reports: “The exact charges under which Fayadh was initially held were not made clear, although some have suggested that his arrest was linked to his publication of a video showing religious police in Abha beating a young man in public. … Saudi Arabia has put to death nearly 150 people so far this year, the highest figure in two decades. Most people are executed by beheading with a sword, a method Saudi authorities say is more humane than other alternatives.

1 comment:

Tom Puckett said...: This rings a bell - from A Tale Of Two Cities - is this scenario always a feature of life on the planet - plane-ette, or small plane of thought - Earth?

What lead to France shelving the madness, eventually?

Thanks, Tom; November 25, 2015 at 12:41 AM

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