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Ireland's Ridiculous Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect

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gandalf.il1/02/2010 3:38:07 pm PST

re: #156 brookly red
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_Saudi_Arabia
In 2009, Amnesty International reported that “at least 102 men and women, 39 of them foreign nationals, were executed in 2008. Many were executed for non-violent offences, including drug offences, ‘sodomy’, blasphemy and apostasy.”
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In 1994, an Ismaili, Hadi Al-Mutaif (also Al-Mutif), a teenager, made a remark that a court deemed blasphemous. The court sentenced Al-Mutaif to death for apostasy. In May 2009, Al-Mutaif was still in prison. He has spent long periods of time in solitary confinement, and has made numerous suicide attempts.

On 3 September 1992, Sadiq ‘Abdul-Karim Malallah was publicly beheaded by sabre in al-Qatif in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province after being convicted of apostasy and blasphemy […] He was reportedly held in solitary confinement for long periods during his first months in detention and tortured prior to his first appearance before a judge in July 1988.
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In 1992, Saudi Arabia executed at least one juvenile for blasphemy.