UN rights chief urges Saudi king to halt flogging of blogger
 

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Saudi Arabia on Thursday to stop the ****** flogging of an atheist and civil rights blogger sentenced to receive 1,000 lashes over an extended period. Raif Badawi, who set up a website called "Free Saudi Liberals", received 50 lashes after Friday prayers last week and global rights groups say he is expected to be submitted to a second round on Friday. "Flogging is in my view at very least a form of cruel and inhuman punishment," High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a statement from his Geneva ******. "I appeal to the King of Saudi Arabia to exercise his power to halt the public flogging by pardoning Mr Badawi, and to urgently review this type of extraordinary harsh penalty," said Zeid, a former Jordanian diplomat.

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