WATCH: Saudi Arabian Blogger Publicly Receives ’50 Lashes’ For Expressing Free Speech

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Blogger Raif Badawi was sentenced to 1,000 lashes – 50 in 20 weekly sessions – for criticising Saudi Arabian clerics on a forum he founded in 2008.

The first of the public floggings was dished out in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Friday, the days after the Charlie Hebdo attacks on the satirical magazine, which has been critical of Islam.

After the beating, people gathered to watch proclaimed, “ALLAHU AKBAR!

Raif Badawi

Two days later Saudi officials attended the march in Paris and stood alongside leaders to condemn the atrocity.

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