An update now on a story we brought you yesterday. The Saudi blogger who was to be publicly flogged again today - 50 lashes - has been given a temporary reprieve. Raif Badawi is serving 10 years in ...

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the supreme court announced, hailing the latest in a series of "human rights advances" made by the king and his powerful son. Court-ordered ...

The sentence of 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes has drawn international condemnation but remains in place for Raif Badawi, a blogger who had... Saudi Supreme Court Upholds Blogger's Prison And ...

A woman sentenced to prison and a public lashing after being gang-raped has been pardoned by the Saudi king in a case that prompted an international outcry, including rare criticism from the United ...