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. The Saudi Media Debates Flogging by the Saudi Religious Police It is evident that practice in Saudi Arabia is far from uniform. The violence of the blows almost made me suspect as much. They are then forced to kneel facing Mecca, over a blue plastic sheet, before the executioner severs the head with a sword in one stroke. It also appeared immediately on YouTube when you searched for Raif Badawi and lashes. Saudi blogger receives first 50 of 1,000 lashes. Copyright Ensaf Haidar, Andrea C. Hoffmann. RT now to #FreeRaif! It is meant to be more of a humiliation, said Mr. Coogle of Human Rights Watch, adding that he had not heard of reports of injuries. It is the extreme rapidity of the strokes -- about four per second -- which is perhaps most surprising, and which makes this seem quite a different kind of thing from the formal and ceremonial manner in which JCP has typically been conducted in the British world (Malaysia, Pakistan, etc. Yes, Ensaf. 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. Ensaf Haidar believes a YouTube video shows her husband receiving a public flogging for "insulting Islam." A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Saudi Arabia abolishes flogging as punishment 'Convicts who have been sentenced to the lash will from now on receive fines or prison terms instead' April 25, 2020 10:38 pm | Updated 10:40 pm IST See paragraphs 24 and 29-31 for the Saudi official response to accusations that judicial flogging constitutes torture. (In other countries where JCP is used a lot, such as Singapore and Malaysia, there are still very many court sentences that do not include caning.) It all looks decidedly informal and ad hoc and arbitrary, but then the whole Saudi system is very ad hoc and arbitrary. Cites press reports that Saudi flogging (which the USSD seems to think is something different from caning) is administered with a "thin reed" by a man holding a book under his arm. That angered Saudi conservatives, who denounced him. Theyre your children after all.. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. Public floggings have grown rare in recent years, either because the punishment was being administered in prisons or not at all. Never before seen Amazon tribe filmed by drone, Camera catches mailman stealing family's tomatoes, Video shows self-driving Uber hit pedestrian, Racist chants caught on camera at university, Policemen catch child falling from balcony, Camera captures kangaroo collide with cyclist, Surveillance shows Turpin siblings' escape, Million-dollar jewel heist caught on camera, See terrifying boat crash caught on video. Theyve beaten your father, he told the children. One will surely land himself into hot waters for being under the influence of alcohol on the plane en route to Saudi Arabia. It was as if I was being operated by remote control. Sighting from the video, the lady who had landed herself into this dire trouble had received over 70 lashes . The document casts doubt on past claims that these are relatively lightly administered and meant as a symbolic humiliation rather than as serious pain. Saudi Arabia's most barbaric punishments: From flogging to eye-gouging IBTimes UK 177K subscribers Subscribe 200K views 7 years ago From flogging to eye-gouging, IBTimes UK looks at some of the. They already guessed that my serious face didnt bode well. 10 A public execution by beheading in Saudi Arabia Credit: Rex Features In one or two reports the offender was said to be tied upright to a post. But Ensaf, he said soothingly. This reform is a momentous step forward in Saudi Arabias human rights agenda, and merely one of many recent reforms in the kingdom, Awwad Alawwad, the president of the kingdoms human rights commission, told Reuters. 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. On Wednesday, Prince of Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud family was given lashes in a prison in Jeddah as a part of court-ordered punishment, as reported by Saudi newspaper. This November 2005 court sentence is probably typical for a fairly routine and minor case. Take the case of the small Arab emirate of Sharjah. In 19th century Britain, the case of a young soldier who died after a similar assault provoked a national outcry. No one in our house ever talked about the subject again. Only England and Wales jurisdiction apply in all legal matters. today front of Saudi embassy in Paris for #RaifBadawi pic.twitter.com/ISc0l6ahiu, - Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme, IBT UK Morning Brief - Let the best of International News come to you. Soon it will be all over the net. Theres also supposed to be a video, she warned me. Nevertheless, surprisingly soon he is heard moaning and shouting. Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a legal punishment in response to criticism of its use of corporal punishment, the Supreme Court has announced. was given a punishment of 100 lashes after . Badawai will continue to be flogged for the next 19 weeks unless a prison doctor finds him in poor health to continue. The man himself could not be made out in the video. However, no news reports to that effect have come to hand. UK prime minister David Cameron personally urged Saudi authorities not to administer the 350 lashings that 74-year-old oil executive Karl Andree was sentenced to for being caught with bootleg wine in his car. 2014: South Park's Cartman says he's 'trans' to use girls' bathroom. However, some observers, notably Amnesty International (see external links below), reject these claims as mere propaganda by the regime; they say this Koranic rule is by no means always followed, and suggest that the floggings, at least in some cases, do in fact cause injury to the recipient. Ms Haidar, asked a womans voice. If Im not mistaken it was a Thursday again when Raif was allowed to call us. The decision to replace flogging as a punishment with jail time and fines was made sometime this month and announced internally by the kingdoms top court, Reuters reported. The children took that time: they fell ill. All three complained of stomach pains and nausea. 1.6k. After performing an autopsy within Hounslow Barracks, the medical army officers declared that his death was in no way connected with the flogging he had received almost a whole month earlier. He had been arrested by the . Defend labour rights In order to discipline the mind it was considered necessary to discipline the body. While he remains in prison, he has been embraced by some in the West as symbol of the kingdoms intolerance of freedom of thought and expression. Saudi Justice Through British Eyes I sat on my sofa, wrapped my arms around my legs and wept. "The strokes, delivered through a thin shirt, are not supposed to leave permanent damage, but to leave painful welts that bleed and bruise.". The USSD has now decided to refer to all Saudi JCP as "lashing" and makes no reference to different implements. 2020. A 2015 demonstration in Paris in support of Raif Badawi. There are highly selective quotes from various naive letters to British newspapers upholding tough sentences. 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. 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