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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Saudi Arabia has sentenced a foreign worker to death over a Facebook post. Why isn’t there a bigger outcry?

Anojan Sivarasa - (Social Media)

Sri Lanka is calling for the international community to help save a young man from execution in Saudi Arabia, where he faces the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad on social media.

Anojan Sivarasa, 24, a migrant worker from Kalmunai in the Eastern Province, was sentenced to death last month for posting a blasphemous comment on Facebook.

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