Sunday, June 14, 2015

SAUDI LAWYER DEFENDING BLOGGER SENTENCED TO 1000 LASHES

  • Jeanne To Thanh Hien‎Network for Human Rights, Equality and Social Justice

    HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE (SAUDI ARABIA)

    'Saudi lawyer Waleed Abu Al-Khair, who is defending a blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes in the Middle East country was on Friday awarded the prestigious Ludovic Trarieux Prize for his work defending human rights, organisers said.
    The annual legal award - one of the world's oldest - is presented to lawyers who "through their work, activities or suffering defend the respect for human rights," the prize's founder Bertrand Favreau said from Amsterdam.'

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  1. Phyllis CarterJune 14, 2015 at 1:44 PM

    It has been reported that the lawyer was arrested in 2014 for defending the blogger. Freedom of speech is smothered in Saudi Arabia. And we call those people our allies.
    https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2014/04/saudi-arabia-waleed-abu-al-khair/

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