Bloggers Beware; Saudi Arabia's Top Court Upheld 10year Jail Term & 1,000 Lashes For Blogger For Insulting Islam

Blogger Raif Badawi 31 Courtesy {Amnesty International

Saudi Arabia's top court has upheld that a blogger be given a ten year jail term and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam. All efforts and condemnation from here and there including from Amnesty International and the United Nations seems to have fallen on deaf ears.

According to Raif Badawi's wife, ''this is a final decision, that is irrevocable,'' she said to AFP news agency during an interview recently by the Canadian media house. Badawi has already been given 50 of the 1,000 lashes outside a Mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah in January, but more lashes was suspended due to his poor medical health.