Saudi blogger Raif Badawi is facing ten years jail, a thousand lashes and a million riyal fine for 'insulting Islam'. He was originally sentenced to seven years jail and 600 lashes, but an appeal court overturned that sentence and ordered a retrial.
Amnesty International has called the new sentence 'outrageous' and says Badawi is a 'prisoner of conscience'.
Badawi was arrested in June 2012 and charged with cyber crime and disobeying his father a crime in Saudi Arabia in relation to his Saudi Liberal Network website..
The site included articles that were critical of senior religious figures such as Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, according to Human Rights Watch.
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