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The children eagerly join in. VIDEO: Ghanaian lady receives 100 lashes for fornicating in Saudi Arabia The coroner was Thomas Wakley, a surgeon, medical journalist, and also the Lancets founder and an ardent anti-flogging campaigner. Only England and Wales jurisdiction apply in all legal matters. Saudi Arabia The first 50 lashes: a Saudi activist's wife endures her husband's brutal sentence After Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was arrested and sentenced to prison and 1,000 lashes,. I immediately started to cry. Saudi Arabia punishments: What will get you flogged - or worse - in the Hundreds of Saudis were flogged every week, according to this January 2004 report from MEMRI, which gives a flavour of the debate inside the country at that time. Mentions that hundreds of political demonstrators were sentenced to flogging, but it was not known whether these sentences had been carried out. A very conservative version of Koranic law is in force in this exceptionally backward, corrupt and repressive country, a ruthless totalitarian dictatorship run by an absolute monarchy. Saudi Arabia Abolishes Flogging as a Punishment for Crime Speaking to Amnesty International, Badawi's wife, Ensaf Haidar, who is based in Canada said she fears her husband is not physically fit to endure a second round of lashes. In the past, they were often carried out in public, adding a social stigma to the physical pain inflicted. But now hes better again. My children reacted very strangely to this new revelation. today front of Saudi embassy in Paris for #RaifBadawi pic.twitter.com/ISc0l6ahiu, - Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme, IBT UK Morning Brief - Let the best of International News come to you.