Saudi Cleric Issues Fatwa Forbidding Snowmen

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Right now, Saudi blogger Raif Badawi is recovering from his first 50 lashes received on Friday last

for the offense of criticizing Saudi clerics. He has little hope of healing his wounds as he will be whipped again this Friday, another 50 each Friday for 20 weeks.
"A Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam was brought after Friday prayers to a public square in the port city of Jeddah and flogged 50 times before hundreds of spectators, a witness to the lashing said.

The witness said Raif Badawi’s feet and hands were shackled during the flogging but his face was visible. He remained silent and did not cry out, said the witness, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity fearing government reprisal.

Badawi was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes. He had criticized Saudi Arabia’s powerful clerics on a liberal blog he founded. The blog has since been shut down. He was also ordered to pay a fine of 1m riyals or about $266,600."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/saudi-blogger-first-lashes-raif-badawi

Those of us who are vocal on the internet should remember Badawi with every letter we type. Right now, he suffers and prepares to suffer more.