Brussels, 12/02/2015 (Agence Europe) - MEPs called on Wednesday 11 February on the Saudi Arabian authorities not to proceed with any further “cruel and shocking” flogging of blogger Raif Badawi, Reporters without borders prize winner in 2014, and to release him “immediately and unconditionally”.
Badawi was sentenced in September 2014 to ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes for calling for greater freedom of speech and arguing in favour of more liberal measures in Saudi Arabia and...