Despite world condemnation and outcry,Saudi Arabia has upheld the 1000 lashes and 10 year sentence for blogger Raif Badawi who was charged with insulting Islam.The Supreme court passed agreed with the earlier judgement ..
According to Mailonline,Raif Badawi received the first 50 of the 1,000 lashes outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on January 9, but subsequent rounds of punishment were postponed on medical grounds.