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Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi Gets 10 Year Jail Sentence
Submitted by Bradley Keyes on Fri, 2014-05-16 00:00
A Saudi court has imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi for 10 years for "insulting Islam" and setting up a liberal web forum, local media report.
He was also sentenced to 1,000 lashes and ordered to pay a fine of 1 million riyals ($266,000; £133,000)...Our allies in the fight against terror.
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