Monday, January 12, 2015

1,000 lashes for a Saudi dissident

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-saudi-repression-edit-0113-20150112-story.html

It was an extreme reaction to dissent even for Saudi Arabia, and it provoked a protest from the U.S. State Department, which said it "calls on Saudi authorities to cancel this brutal punishment," imposed merely for "exercising his rights to freedom of expression and religion."

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