The flogging of a Saudi blogger will not occur as scheduled on Friday because a team of doctors is concerned for the man's health, three people familiar with the situation tell Mashable.
The blogger, Raif Badawi, was arrested in 2012 after writing articles critical of Saudi Arabia's clerics on a liberal blog he created, which has since been shut down. He was found guilty of breaking Saudi Arabia's technology laws and insulting Islamic religious figures through the website.
He was sentenced in 2013 to seven years in prison and 600 lashes, but after an appeal the judge stiffened the punishment in May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes. Badawi was also fined 1 million Saudi riyals, or roughly $266,000. Read more...
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