Saudi officials hailed the flogging ban as part of these changes. Flogging with a cane is administered for less serious offences, such as drinking alcohol. Some reports (e.g. He offered to come home with me and jump in when I couldnt cope any more. Raif Badawi was sentenced to 1,000 lashes in Saudi Arabia, prompting protests around the world One woman flogged for doing just that described on the Iranian Facebook page My Stealthy. Thanks for coming, she said to me. The most high-profile instance of flogging in recent years was the case of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi who was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes in 2014 for "insulting" Islam. The coroner was Thomas Wakley, a surgeon, medical journalist, and also the Lancets founder and an ardent anti-flogging campaigner. In 2003, a court sentenced Indian migrant worker Puthan Veettil 'Abd ul-Latif Noushad to be punished by having his right eye gouged out in retribution for his role in a brawl in which a Saudi citizen was injured. Having a drink on the flight en route to Saudi Arabia. This difference in approach is supposed to reflect the idea that Saudi floggings are intended primarily as symbolic humiliation rather than intensely painful retribution, and is in line with a rule in the Koran that the operator is required to keep a copy of the holy book under his arm, so that he will not swing the whip from the shoulder but only from the elbow. OK? OK, I replied. Its here that we receive journalists and stay in contact with activists all over the world who are standing by us. See paragraphs 24 and 29-31 for the Saudi official response to accusations that judicial flogging constitutes torture. It seems not to occur to any of the writers that, since the whole Saudi set-up, including the judicial system, is ruthlessly corrupt from top to bottom, convictions of innocent people are even more likely than in Britain. By continuing to dole out this inhuman punishment the Saudi Arabian authorities are flagrantly flouting basic human rights principles.". 2. Over the past few weeks I had completely repressed the idea that Raif was actually going to be whipped in addition to his prison sentence. In 2014, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, fined more than a quarter-million dollars, and ordered to endure 1,000 blows with a cane in weekly installments over several months. by Ensaf Haidar & Andrea C. Hoffmann, published by Other Press on 17 May 2016. Whites body was just about to be buried when the coroner for Middlesex decided to hold a judicial inquiry. End secrecy, end suffering - an Amnesty International briefing IBT UK Morning Brief - Let the best of International News come to you. In the morning, before the children woke up, I confiscated all the computers, tablets and telephones in the apartment, and I unplugged the television. The men I had seen in the video might as well have put me in a square and flogged me. 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Men 'Behaving Like Women' Face Flogging This implies that the Saudi authorities draw a distinction between "moral" offences to do with sex or alcohol, punished by caning, and political or religious crimes, punished by flogging with a leather strap. CNN's Becky Anderson reports. 02:28. For almost a week we heard nothing more about Raif. Why Larry Summers is moving left with age, The Lockdown Files only confirm every suspicion we had about the pandemic government, Undermining Sue Grays integrity wont save Boris Johnson, Universal Credit falls short of covering the bare essentials. It currently remains a legal punishment in several countries and regions, all of which have sharia-based criminal laws.Gay people also face extrajudicial killings by state and non-state actors, as in Chechnya in 2019, though it is denied by the Chechen authorities and . After fifty more had been given he took the whip again and inflicted the final fifty lashes. However, no news reports to that effect have come to hand. Saudi Arabia: Gang rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes, rapists get away with light punishment New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a court in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia sentenced 200 lashes and a . 1.6k. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Our weekly culture newsletter from books and art to pop culture and memes sent every Friday. But when I told them they werent to go to school that day, but spend the day with my friends Sylvie and Jane and Janes dogs, they were very excited. Youre doing what you can. In the above video, IBTimes UK explains five of the most barbaric punishments you can receive in Saudi Arabia. "The strokes, delivered through a thin shirt, are not supposed to leave permanent damage, but to leave painful welts that bleed and bruise.". 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With trembling hands I clicked on the video to set it in motion. It was too much for me. Amnesty International document. The Saudi authorities arrested Mr. Badawi in 2012 and put him on trial on charges that included cybercrime and disobeying his father. Discovery Company. We must keep on fighting," said Haider. Someone filmed Raifs lashes on their phone.. If only I could have done something for him! Can you talk? It was the principal of the school. After the first 50 lashes and the international public outcry that followed the men with the whips in Riyadh did not at first dare to repeat the punishment. Children talk to each other. If (as seems probable) the nurses did not actually do the crime, the question of punishment is irrelevant. All Rights Reserved. November 1997: Behind Closed Doors: Unfair Trials In Saudi Arabia Andrew Buchan and Leila Farzad 'touchy-feely' on . Badawai will continue to be flogged for the next 19 weeks unless a prison doctor finds him in poor health to continue. Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a legal punishment in response to criticism of its use of corporal punishment, the Supreme Court has announced. The new year began with an act of violence. by Human Rights Watch) claim that floggings are "often" public. I woke them up at half past seven on the dot, as always. Copyright C. Farrell 2006-2021 Amnesty International document. The soldier, a 27 year-old south Londoner enlisted in the 7th Queens Own Hussars, apologised for not being in touch with his family due to a great deal of trouble he had been through. The following 40-second video clip was filmed surreptitiously on a mobile telephone. If authorities ignore widespread criticism and unashamedly continue with the flogging of Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabia would be demonstrating contempt for international law and disregard for world opinion. Never before seen Amazon tribe filmed by drone. One will surely land himself into hot waters for being under the influence of alcohol on the plane en route to Saudi Arabia. The farriers used the cat o nine tails, a tool made up of nine knotted thongs of cotton that could be found in veterinary shops. On Sunday evening, however, the subject was still in the headlines, and I wondered whether I would even be able to send the children to school the next day. Dont worry. One reader describes being himself judicially caned in Saudi Arabia in 1994 (probably a hoax: it was in the Daily Mail). Women as well as men may be flogged. They were not supposed to break the skin and, as the Lancet reported, experienced hands knew that the lash should have fallen in the small area between the shoulders only. Its all my fault, he said. Its a scandal, they wrote. In the future, judges will have to choose between fines and/or jail sentences, or non-custodial alternatives like community service, the court said in a statement seen by AFP on Saturday. Raifs face smiles from the banner over our sofa, while we get together to make posters for the next demonstration. But a video of the first installment, in front of a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, set off international outrage and Mr. Badawi was never caned again. Floggings in Saudi Arabia typically take place Thursday nights outside of prisons . Saudi blogger receives first 50 of 1,000 lashes. The colonel and the regiments doctor stood with their arms folded. We will ask them not to talk to your children explicitly about the subject when they come back. Once I got home, I called the children together in the sitting room again. Raifs head was bowed. The principal had already assembled a council of teachers, a social worker and the school psychologist. Tomorrow theyre going to start enforcing my sentence. Tennessee becomes first state to outlaw drag shows on public grounds, near schools. 10 A public execution by beheading in Saudi Arabia Credit: Rex Features He was awarded the European parliament's Sakharov human rights prize the following year. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. I surely hope he intends to go after the whole justice system, because it is very flawed in both regulations and implementation, Mr. Coogle said of Prince Mohammed. Have they done it? I asked her. Defend labour rights On 7 January 2015, two masked men stormed the editorial offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and shot 11 journalists. CNN's Becky Anderson reports. In public, in front of a big crowd of people. A 2015 demonstration in Paris in support of Raif Badawi. Ill get them in front of the big mosque in Jeddah.. On 2 April, an Asian housemaid was. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The article also claims that there is unhappiness in the country about inconsistent sentencing, suggests that there are too many flogging sentences, and calls on the government to codify the laws. They have hurt him very badly. As one of the witnesses told the coroner during the inquiry, blood had appeared between Whites shoulders after twenty lashes had been given. I didnt know what to say. April 2005 release from Human Rights Watch gives a bit more information about the case of 35 men sentenced to jail and lashes for "deviant sexual behaviour" at an alleged gay party. 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We see roughly 50 lashes, though nobody appears to be counting. Page updated May 2021, US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices for 1997, US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices for 2000, US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices for 2001, US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices for 2003, US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices for 2004, US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices for 2005, US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006, End secrecy, end suffering - an Amnesty International briefing, case of 35 men sentenced to jail and lashes, UN Committee Against Torture, 10 May 2002, The Saudi Media Debates Flogging by the Saudi Religious Police, UN Human Rights Commission: 1997: Thematic Reports, 1994: Unwelcome "guests": The plight of Iraqi refugees, November 1997: Behind Closed Doors: Unfair Trials In Saudi Arabia. Something bad happened this weekend. Is it about Dad again? Dodi asked suspiciously. Only England and Wales jurisdiction apply in all legal matters. Cites several whipping cases, with some detail of how particular floggings were carried out. The whole day was one big nightmare. Ohio band member and family killed in murder-suicide, police say, Police: Mayor of College Park, Maryland, arrested for child pornography, 5 Best Destinations for a Family Safari in Africa, Trade in Your Fitbit: A Smart and Sustainable Way to Upgrade Your Tech, The Reason Why Banks and Other Businesses Require so Many Details. Protesters take part in an Amnesty International protest in front of the Saudi embassy in London against the flogging of Raif Badawi. His punishment began last week outside al-Jafali mosque in Jeddah after the Friday prayers. Flogging, whipping or lashing are all used in Saudi Arabia and can be administered for offences such as spending time with the opposite sex, being gay or even for bringing liqueur chocolates into the country. Believe me, I would rather have spared them all that too., This time Raifs reaction was very understanding. The children know about it, too. Again the tears came. But I cant do that! Theyll find out anyway, she argued. Hundreds of lashes could previously. It all looks decidedly informal and ad hoc and arbitrary, but then the whole Saudi system is very ad hoc and arbitrary. He had been arrested by the . A post shared by News Stand (@smartandstuck). Had they broken his bones? 25 Feb/23. SAUDI ARABIA: Judicial CP. It was unpredictable, and depended on variables such as the type of whips, the number of knots that the whips may form and, the external temperature. No. Raif clearly had something else on his mind. In 19th century Britain, the case of a young soldier who died after a similar assault provoked a national outcry. General of the British Empire, Sir James Charles Napier, in his Remarks of Military Law wrote that sentences of thousands lashes were common at the end of the eighteenth century. Propaganda page by the Saudi government. Raif Badawi, 33, was . A post shared by News Stand (@smartandstuck) on Jul 29, 2020 at 2:53am PDT, A post shared by Ghpage TV (@ghpage_tv) on Jul 29, 2020 at 8:14am PDT, Your email address will not be published. Ensaf Haidar, wife of Saudi blogger and human rights activist Raif Badawi. Badawai was sentenced to 10 years in prison, 1,000 lashes and ordered to pay one million Saudi riyals (157,220) for setting up the Saudi Arabian Free Liberals Forum. The wounds heal slowly. Are you receiving medical treatment? Yes, a doctor examined me. Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund says a ruling directing its chief to provide information in an antitrust fight between LIV Golf and PGA Tour Inc. is an "extraordinary infringement" on . But Ensaf, he said soothingly. Different reports suggest that, as one might expect under a regime where the rule of law is a wholly alien concept, there are no formal procedures and little consistency about the modus operandi: either a whip, a leather strap, or a long cane may be used; sometimes the lashes are confined to the buttocks, more often it seems they are spread out from the neck to the ankles, and usually with the prisoner simply lying face down on the ground. He didnt level any accusations at me. A reader of the Times wrote to the editor that had the regimental doctor put his fingers on Whites wrist he would have found that at each lash his pulse faltered. US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices for 2001 That angered Saudi conservatives, who denounced him. But as a Victorian pamphlet recited: performers and skin materially differ, accidents sometimes happen. There are highly selective quotes from various naive letters to British newspapers upholding tough sentences. Yes, Ensaf. As part of his plans to diversify the economy and open up society, he has taken the power to arrest away from the kingdoms religious police and expanded entertainment opportunities by opening movie theaters and bringing in rock concerts, professional wrestling tournaments and monster truck rallies. 2. Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia is a legal penalty. John White was not the only person who had died after a flogging but this was the occasion on which the explanation for a dynamic relationship between superficial marks and injuries left on the body and internal organs of the punished was used as a political argument against corporal punishment. 00:46. Take the case of the small Arab emirate of Sharjah. He is free," Ensaf Haidar told AFP news agency from . Committing adultery can lead to death by stoning. At paragraph 32 we are informed that the Saudi Arabian judiciary is "completely independent", a claim not supported by various USSD and Amnesty reports. Western human rights campaigners gave more muted reactions. The prisoner in this case is allegedly a sex offender, though there is no way of verifying that. It is a huge shock for them. "Raif called me. The US Department of State report found that, although the death penalty is a possibility for same-sex sexual activity, prosecutors did not seek to impose this punishment during the year.. Will you promise me that youll be brave and not tell the children? Yes, of course. I sat down on a kitchen chair. If this is true, the paucity of such photographs might be explained by the fact that anyone caught taking pictures of such events is himself severely punished, according to some anecdotal evidence. He couldnt tell me how things would go after that. 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