Saudi blogger's flogging 'to resume', says wife

Source: Telegraph UK

Saudi Arabia is to resume the flogging of Raif Badawi, the blogger whose first 50 lashes became the centre of an international outcry, his wife says she has been told.

Ensaf Haidar, who is now living in Canada with the couple’s children, said the same “informed source” who originally tipped her off to the flogging of her husband in January had told her the punishment was about to resume.

If the statement is true, it will be a snub to Britain, which privately and publicly has intervened in the case, and especially the Prince of Wales, regarded as one of the kingdom’s “oldest friends”, who raised Mr Badawi’s case personally with King Salman on a visit in February.

It may also be a response to the government's decision to drop a contract with the Saudi prison system worth £5.9 million, believed to have been taken in protest at Saudi Arabia's human rights record.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11958478/Saudi-bloggers-flogging-to-resume-says-wife.html

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Apparently flogging bloggers is a tool of the Saudis to score points on the world stage. Sick they are.