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Saudi man gets 10 years, 2,000 lashes over atheist tweets

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AP Riyadh
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of Twitter posts.

Al-Watan online daily said today that religious police in charge of monitoring social networks found more than 600 objectionable tweets.

It says the 28-year-old man admitted to being an atheist and refused to repent, saying that what he wrote reflected his own beliefs and that he had the right to express them.

The report did not name the man.

The court also fined him 20,000 riyals, about USD 5,300.

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First Published: Feb 27 2016 | 7:22 PM IST

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