Saudi Arabia
Death sentence on Ashraf Fayadh is tilted
The lyricist should be on the scaffold, because he has fallen away from the Faith. This judgment was in Saudi Arabia now cancelled again. Ashraf Fayadh is allowed to live. If he survives.
Eight years in prison and 800 lashes of the whip would have to be the Palestinian Poet now survive. Because that is the penalty, in which the death sentence was converted, as his lawyer tweeted. In addition, should Fayadh in state-run media in Saudi Arabia, a formal revocation of publish.
The Saudi Arabia-born Palestinians was at the religious police, denounced and in the year 2014 to four years in prison and 800 whippings have been convicted. In one of Fayadh against a retrial had the Religionsgericht in November 2015 then the death penalty will be imposed.
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As an artist active internationally
According to the human rights organization Human Rights Watch were the Poet blasphemous Remarks at a panel discussion in a Café, as well as in a 2008 published book of poems accused of been. Against the verdict protested on 14. January Poets, artists and intellectuals from at least 43 countries on all continents. In 121 readings they pointed to the fate of Fayadhs.
Ashraf Fayadh is far beyond the borders of Saudi Arabia’s known. He used, for example, contacts to the London Tate Gallery and has curated in 2013 at the Venice Biennale, the presence of a group of artists from Saudi-Arabia.
The quick call for the executioner
The Kingdom belongs to the countries with the most executions in the world. Alone 2015 after a count by the AFP news Agency 153 death sentences enforced. In the previous year, there were still 84 executions.
In Saudi Arabia stands on terrorism, murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking, the death penalty. But also offences such as Apostasy from the Faith, “witchcraft” and adultery, according to Amnesty International, to be punished with death. Riad argues with the deterrent effect of executions. Most death row inmates will be publicly beheaded.
rb/se (afp, dpa, dw)