Thousands of Saudis took to Twitter to share their reaction to
news of prominent Saudi blogger and activist Raif Badawi getting flogged by
authorities in Jeddah on Friday for "insulting Islam."
Two Arabic hashtags that translate to "Raif Badawi's
public lashing" and " lashing Raif Badawi"
trended in Saudi Arabia with more than 250,000 tweets after news of carrying
out the first round
of lashes on
Badawi was announced.
Badawi was arrested in June 2012 and sentenced to 10 years in
prison and 1,000 lashes after being charged with offences ranging from
cybercrime to disobeying his father and insulting Islam on his "Saudi
Liberal Network" website - which is now offline.
The punishment has been condemned by the US and human rights
organizations. But the online conversation is far less united on the matter.
BBC
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