“There is no further appeal possible in the Saudi courts (for Raif Badawi). At this point, Mr. Badawi’s only hope lies in a pardon from King Salman bin Abdulaziz.” The editorial page of the New York Times today (June 10) added its voice to those of hundreds of thousands who have signed petitions, Tweeted, made phone calls, traveled to protests. It published an editorial signed by its entire editorial board titled “Clemency for Raif Badawi.”

There is a new urgency to the case of the Saudi Arabian blogger imprisoned for publishing his unapproved thoughts because last week the Saudi Arabian Supreme Court upheld the horrid sentence of 10 years in prison and 1000 lashes by a whip or a cane, as detailed in this space on June 7 in “A Sense of Injustice.”
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