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Related: About this forumPalestinian Poet Sentenced to Death in Saudi Arabia for Renouncing Islam
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Ashraf Fayadh, detained in 2013, had initially been sentenced to 800 lashes and four years in prison, but another judge changed the punishment to a death sentence.
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.
The verdict of that court sentenced him to four years in prison and 800 lashes but after appeal another judge passed a death sentence on Fayadh three days ago, said Coogle.
"I have read the trial documents from the lower court verdict in 2014 and another one from 17 November. It is very clear he has been sentenced to death for apostasy," Coogle said.
Saudi Arabia's justice system is based on Sharia Islamic law and its judges are clerics from the kingdom's ultra conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam. In the Wahhabi interpretation of Sharia, religious crimes including blasphemy and apostasy incur the death penalty.[/quote]
[url] http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.687386[/url]
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)6chars
(3,967 posts)Sounds like one.
Ilsa
(61,693 posts)Just let him go and kick him out of the country.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,969 posts)after watching the saudi princesses buying £70 purses encrusted by diamonds, oil wealth in only a few hands has created this.
islam needs a reformation.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)Amnesty International is organizing a campaign against this monstrous injustice:
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/write-rights-waleed-abu-al-khair-saudi-arabia#.VlOWqXknzhk
Avaaz has organized an international petition
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Amnesty_international_Save_the_palestinian_poet_and_artist_Ashraf_Fayadh/?tiUvmab
Whether Saudi Arabia will listen to world opinion is uncertain, but we can but try.