Raif Badawi

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's King Salman at the start of a meeting at Erga Palace in Riyadh.

Would you take 100 lashes to spare a Saudi blogger? They say they will

January 27, 2015Justice

A group of US university professors and human rights activists have written a letter to the Saudi ambassador to the US, asking him to stop the flagging of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi. If that’s not possible, they say they’re ready to take the lashes instead.