Photos : Wife of a Saudi Arabia blogger sentenced to 1000 lashes for insulting Islam. She was flogged.
The wife of a Saudi Arabian blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam has said crowds were cheering like they were at a beach party as he was publicly flogged. Raif Badawi, 33, was sentenced to ten years in prison and corporal punishment in 2014, and the first 50 of his lashes which his wife says nearly killed him was filmed. She is now petitioning for the newly-instated Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia to pardon her husband, urging Saudi ally UK and Prime Minister Theresa May to put pressure on the Arab state.