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  • Saudi blogger may face trial for apostasy, possible death sentence

    Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/25/world/...html?hpt=hp_t2

    Wife: Saudi blogger sentenced to death for apostasy
    By Salma Abdelaziz, CNN
    updated 9:18 PM EST, Wed December 25, 2013

    (CNN) -- Raif Badawi, a blogger in Saudi Arabia who has been imprisoned for violating the nation's anti-cybercrime law, was given the death penalty for apostasy by a higher court Wednesday, his wife told CNN.

    Badawi founded the Free Saudi Liberals website and was originally given a seven-year sentence in July...

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    Re: Saudi blogger sentenced to death for apostasy

    There may be something wrong with this report. As it stands, the story has been edited, and now reads:

    (CNN) -- A judge in Saudi Arabia has recommended that imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi go before a high court on a charge of apostasy, which would carry the death penalty upon conviction, according to Badawi's wife.

    Ensaf Haidar initially told CNN on Wednesday that her husband had been sentenced to death. She later clarified to CNN that a judge has recommended he be tried for denouncing Islam, or apostasy. Apostasy carries the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International.

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