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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11228

13 January 2015
Contents Publication in full By article 20 / 26
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) saudi arabia
EU criticises public lashing of a blogger

Brussels, 12/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 9 January, the European Union criticised the public lashing, in Jeddah the same day, of blogger and activist Raif Badawi, who was the winner of the Reporters without Borders award in 2014. The public lashing was part of the sentence condemning him to 10 years of imprisonment and 1,000 lashes last September, after he argued for liberal measures in Saudi Arabia and for the celebration of St Valentine's Day. The 1,000 lashes will be given over 20...

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