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From: zax11/21/2015 12:06:45 PM
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Saudi Arabia Sentences Palestinian Poet To Death For Apostasy
His conviction was based on a witness who claimed to have heard his cursing God, as well as his poems.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/saudi-arabia-ashraf-fayadh-death-sentence-apostasy_564f5cf9e4b0879a5b0acfc6?cps=gravity_2688_5796637543586105734

Posted: 11/20/2015 02:04 PM EST

RIYADH, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a Palestinian poet to death for apostasy, abandoning his Muslim faith, according to trial documents seen by Human Rights Watch, its Middle East researcher Adam Coogle said on Friday.

Ashraf Fayadh was detained by the country's religious police in 2013 in Abha, in southwest Saudi Arabia, and then rearrested and tried in early 2014.

The verdict of that court sentenced him to four years in prison and 800 lashes but after appeal another judge passed a death sentence on Fayadh three days ago, said Coogle.

"I have read the trial documents from the lower court verdict in 2014 and another one from 17 November. It is very clear he has been sentenced to death for apostasy," Coogle said

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