GENEVA (15 January 2015) – UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday appealed to the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to halt the punishment of Raef Badawi, who was publicly
flogged 50 times last Friday and is reportedly due to be flogged again tomorrow
and every Friday until his sentence of 1,000 lashes has been fully carried out.
“Flogging is, in my view, at the
very least, a form of cruel and inhuman punishment. Such punishment is
prohibited under international human rights law, in particular the Convention
against Torture, which Saudi Arabia has ratified,” Zeid said. “I appeal to the
King of Saudi Arabia to exercise his power to halt the public flogging by
pardoning Mr. Badawi, and to urgently review this type of extraordinarily harsh
penalty.”
GENEVA
(15 January 2015) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al
Hussein on Thursday appealed to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to halt the
punishment of Raef Badawi, who was publicly flogged 50 times last
Friday and is reportedly due to be flogged again tomorrow and every
Friday until his sentence of 1,000 lashes has been fully carried out.
“Flogging is, in my view, at the very least, a form of cruel and
inhuman punishment. Such punishment is prohibited under international
human rights law, in particular the Convention against Torture, which
Saudi Arabia has ratified,” Zeid said. “I appeal to the King of Saudi
Arabia to exercise his power to halt the public flogging by pardoning
Mr. Badawi, and to urgently review this type of extraordinarily harsh
penalty.”- See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=15485&LangID=E#sthash.uHrzCHuZ.dpuf
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Zeid appeals to Saudi Arabia to stop flogging of blogger
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