diumenge, 29 de novembre del 2015

An injustice in capital letters

Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh has been sentenced to death. This case started when the religious police of Palestine, arrested Fayadh in 2013 on account of a complaint from a Saudi citizen that accused him of obscene comments against God, against the Prophet Muhammad and against the Saudi Estate and for propagate atheism in public places. 
He was newly arrested in 2014, when prosecutors accused him of several charges of blasphemy for his book of love poems Within Instruction published ten years ago. Prosecutors also accuse him of mocking God and the prophets of Coran. He was sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes and, in this case, the fiscal refuse the death penalty by repentance of the accused poet. But this last November, another judge reviewed the case and now, he has been sentenced to death as he considered that the repentance was not enough. 
Important cultural figures from different countries have joined to protest against this death sentence, misfortune that unfortunately adds the death of the father of the writer after suffering a heart attack last week when he heard the news.
Amongst those who has supported Fayadh, now refugee in Saudi Arabia, we can find Chris Decon, the British poet Carol Ann Duffy, the British writer David Hare, the Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif, the Sirius poet Adonis, the Irish writer Paul Muldoon, the historian of the United Kingdom Simon Schama and many more in addition to a dozen of organizations and associations from the United Kingdom, the United States and from Africa, who have signed a statement defending the freedom of the poet and the freedom of expression.
I choose this new because it show us that, nowadays, in the 21st century, not everybody in everywhere has the rights that should have. At least in our country or in the Europe Union, is unthinkable that someone could be arrested for give his opinion and even less, that this person could be sentenced to death! This shows us that we are not as advanced as we thought (although a country as the United Sates, one of the "most moderns" the death penalty still exists). For this, I agree with those intellectuals who has risen against this because is an injustice in capital letters. 

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